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As an agency of Sales Recruiters, we are all capable of running your interview experience. Your initial point of contact will be with a Sales Recruiter you’ve likely already met. Following that, you'll have the opportunity to meet with either Dan or Adam, where you can freely inquire about any aspect of the role. Our leaders are committed to providing candid insights, ensuring you have a clear understanding of what to expect. Next, you’ll be asked to take our CVI Assessment. Feel free to take it now if you wish! Subsequently, you'll engage with two additional recruiters plus a Recruiting Manager for your final steps.

We are truly unique. Our offices tend to be lighthearted, fun, supportive, but also fiercely competitive and dedicated to learning & growing. We also do our best to make work feel like home. We have beautiful workstations, dogs begging for treats, music on at all times, modern technologies, private spaces, stocked bars, cozy break rooms, and even espresso machines! And it’s common for previous employees to stop in and say hi to the team.

But even more important than any of that, we have a culture of proper boundaries. This is a team of adults with lives of their own, and SalesFirst doesn't meddle in their personal time.

We regularly contribute to our blog, and we recommend that interested internal candidates at least read through these prior to interviewing.

Pre-Interview Research

Essential Questions to Ask

10 Traits of a Successful Recruiter

A Day in the Life

Structured Interviews

Work Life Harmony

Climbing the Corporate Ladder

Retained, Contained, and Contingent

We’ve believed for many years that a company doesn’t choose its core values, it instead uncovers them.

Here are ours:

Be worthy of loyalty.

Help your teammates any way you can.

Results, not excuses.

Be a student of your profession; learn from every lesson.

Just as some people purchase a car and others lease a car, employers have similar options for their headcount needs. SalesFirst Recruiting primarily focuses on the Direct Hire business. This means that we typically help companies find a new W-2 employee in exchange for a one-time fee. In our case, we charge fees ranging from 20% – 30% of a candidate’s guaranteed income.

In terms of competition, we tend to think of other agencies as our colleagues instead of our competitors. Many agencies have specialties that make them a unique fit for a customer at a given time. SalesFirst is an undisputed leader in sales recruiting. We get countless referrals from our colleagues, and we refer our clients to other agencies when they have a special need that we can’t fill.

If your plan is to find satisfaction in recruiting by helping others, you may love this role, but you might also be disappointed. There will be days where you feel good about helping a candidate or client, and you will certainly build lifelong friendshiips as well- but recruiting in our system is about hard work, professional growth, financial reward, and work-life balance.

You should be ready to accept your fair share of disappointments. Deals fall apart often- for reasons that may seem ridiculous to you. Over the years while you learn and grow here you’ll find ways to avoid common pitfalls, but you’ll have your share of tough days even as a seasoned pro.

Our goal is to find winners for our clients and to take extra special care of our team members. Winners come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and we’ve found equitable ways to explore the true potential of our candidates. We measure DRIVE, ATTITUDE, and CHARACTER. We don’t think it gets any more equitable than that.

In short, we have multiple teams at SalesFirst. Our Administrative Headquarters is based out of Portland, OR where our team comes in once per week. The rest of our teams are fully remote and tend to meet up for lunch to stay connected.

Talk to us and we’ll figure out what’s best for you.

We neither grow for recognition nor profit. We grow out of thoughtfulness to keep our amazing team members developing and leveling up. Currently, we are focused on growing our territories in the NW Region of the US, the SW Region, the Mountain Region, and soon…. Texas.

A Sales Recruiting Agency is the same thing as a Sales Recruiting Firm. We help employers find talented sales professionals. The sales professionals range from SDRs to Account Executives , Outside Sales Reps to Account Managers, and Sales Engineers to Sales Leaders. We serve technology companies, manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and any industry you can think of!

We don’t charge the candidate. We charge a fee to the employer when they hire our candidate.