TWK2001

SDR

(SDR job seeker question) Is there anyway to get around the objection: 'we aren't hiring outside of the US right now'?

I think overall, if you can demonstrate your value and that you can bring results to the team, they'll want to hire you. I've thought of asking hiring managers to unpack that a little bit. The objections that I think could come up would sometimes be related to legality, and I'm not sure there's a way around that. But I'm just wondering for more objections that could come up and how you might respond to them?

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poweredbycaffeine

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It's very expensive to file in a new state, let alone a new country. Then you have to figure out benefits, local labor laws, taxes, etc...you either dedicate a single HR person to that task OR you pay a lot of money for a platform to do it. To build back the ROI of that single hire you should probably hire a lot more folks in that region...which may not be advantageous to your business.

Sunbunny31

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Sr Sales Executive 🐰

This is the answer. The solution to the problem is to look for companies that already have a global presence and have an office in your country, even if you're remote. They'll be set up to do business in your country already.

RandyLahey

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Account Executive

It's a major cost that, in this environment, companies are eager to slash.

CuriousFox

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Kosta_Konfucius

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Sales Rep

If you ask them why, what do they say? If its due tolegal or logistical constraints that is going to be an uphill battle

Space_Ghost20

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Account Executive

The time difference can be difficult. If you're early in your career (which as an SDR I'm assuming you are) I can imagine a hiring manager wondering how realistic it is for you to work odd hours for a long period of time. Unless you have prior work history, that's a difficult one to overcome.

I remember one place I worked, we had an SDR who worked out of Hawaii. She very rarely made it to any morning sales meetings. Eventually she no-showed for work for 2 weeks and then resigned. I'm sure a lot of hiring managers have stories like that. Hard to overcome that objection.

TWK2001

Fire Starter

SDR

What are 'odd hours'? If that just means outside of 9-5 hours, I think (potentially) I could use school as a response - I definitely did a lot of work at school for long periods of time during what might be considered 'odd hours' for work. How might that sound?

Space_Ghost20

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Account Executive

Well, I worked for 3 months from Jordan when my father-in-law was doing treatment for his brain tumor. It was a 7 hour time difference, so I was working 5 pm to 2 am local every day. If I had a late meeting or something, then maybe I'd be working a little past that.

Anyway, I was able to keep those hours just fine. But a) it was a relatively short period of time and b) it was a country that I wasn't 100% comfortable in. I know enough Arabic to get around and know some local places to get food or whatever, but I don't know that I'd want to work those hours from within the US where I have friends and family and activities that I'd want to participate in that would be impacted by working those hours.

CPTAmerica

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President/CRO

The truth is you're going to have a tough time if you are expecting to work for a US company and receive the same compensation as their US based employees but live abroad. Unless you are offering an exceptional amount of experience or similar results for less money there just aren't that many companies that will take on the risk.

I've managed SDR's and AE's in this situation, it does add complexity.

braintank

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Enterprise Account Executive

oldcloser

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yep. nope.

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

Some of them are even promoting to their clients that all of their team members are only US based.Just found you a good li article that tells various reasons why many US companies ain't hiring internationally.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-your-us-company-cannot-hire-employees-market-rob-wellner#:~:text=Employees%20in%20foreign%20countries%20are,exist%20in%20most%20foreign%20countries).

Pachacuti

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They call me Daddy, Sales Daddy

not really, unless there is a unique language requirement they need

CRAG112

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Account Executive

You have to understand that every response is not an objection. In this case, it is a fact. It is not an objection. If you understand why a company would not want to do it, you then understand the reason.

Armageddon

Opinionated

Enterprise Account Executive

unlikely. Sounds more like a requirement then an objection

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(SDR job seeker question) Is there anyway to get around the objection: 'we aren't hiring outside of the US right now'?

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