Too early to look for a new job?

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Hey WR fam, I wanted to get your thoughts on this.

I'm currently 4 months into my new role as an AE (been with my current company for over 2 years), and I'm feeling the itch to start looking for a new job. The reason I am getting the itch is due to feeling like we have quite a few problems within our sales organization that I get the feeling from conversations, leadership doesn't have a roadmap for on how to solve those problems. On top of that, they've preached cleaning up our data to provide overall better leads/accounts within territories, and they are moving at a snails pace to accomplish that.

Our sales cycle even on the SMB side can be pretty long, thus leading to times with a lower commission. I can imagine I'm not the only one in my organization feeling this way, as about 33% of the reps hit their quarterly quota in Q2. I do like my teammates and sales leaders quite a bit, however I'm not sure even they know how to get from 33% of reps hitting quota to even above 50% at the moment.

My question for you all is, should I look for new opportunities, or continue to grind it out for the rest of the fiscal year, and reassess then?

Accepted Answer

I will just say - operationally things are not always greener on the other side. I left a similar situation with poor leadership… and ended up in arguably a worse one however I just get paid more to deal with it. Don’t let leadership and operations be the only thing that drives you out.

I would give it a year

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If you have only been an AE for 4 months, stay for at least a year. You’ll have better offers after due to experience and you can spin your year however you need to. 
The grass isn’t always greener though. Most orgs will look at your ‘experience’ and give you below market offer or want you to start as a SDR then work your way up. 
If you have an itch to leave, try to find a hobby that you can focus one for the next 8 months. That will get your through it. Day 365, hit the recruitment scene

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If you decide to make a move, be prepared for every interview to touch on why you left 4 months after a promotion. Remember that they are going to use your answer to determine if you are a flight risk in the event they want to hire you.

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In my opinion, companies appreciate loyalty.  Hiring managers look for people that can show they were able to persevere in troubled times.  If you go through your career looking for the easy path you may find yourself without options when you need to rely on someone.

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9-12months usually gives you an all round picture of how things are going to go

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Two points

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I would start looking but maybe just to get ideas, if you really hate the position then yes it is ok to think about switching. I usually stick out the bad jobs for right about a year before leaving to give it some time.

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You can start the process of looking now, assume that it will take a while and still plan on finishing out the fiscal year. If something better comes up quickly then feel free to take it

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Start looking but don't leave in a hurry, you never know what things are truly like at another place and it could be worse.

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Never too early

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Always look out for #1

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Too early to look for a new job?

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Too early to look for a new job?

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