What has worked for me in this job hunt so far and what hasn't.

So there are a lot of posts from people saying how bad the market is and how the job hunt is deflating them. I wanted to share what has not worked for me and what has worked. For something to work for me, I must get a meeting with a hiring manager.

My process:

Every day, I apply to 5 AE Roles on LinkedIn but I am very focused and read the description thoroughly before I apply. I am not going to blindly spam apply.

If I have a connection at the company, I message them first before applying.

If the role sounds REALLY enticing, I find the cell number of the hiring manager and call them.

The next thing I try to do is post on LinkedIn every day, this is to get my profile more visibility. I post things relevant to sales.

Results to date:

Since job hunting in January, I have applied to 100 AE roles.

For every single one that I got an interview for, the trend was that I usually cold-called the Hiring Manager or had someone at the company refer me. So far, that has been the case for 11 AE roles.

For every single role I cold applied to, I have had a zero percent success rate. It is either a rejection email or not hearing back from them.

Recruiters and Inbound opportunities.

Ever since posting on LinkedIn and having some of my posts accumulate over 100 likes, I have had more recruiters reaching out.

Not only have recruiters reached out, I have had sales reps from other companies and sales leaders introduce me to some opportunities I would not have heard of.

However, there have only been 6 opportunities that have been such and most have not been very promising to date.

I will keep everyone updated but hope this somewhat helps.