{"id":7101,"date":"2025-01-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theforage.wpengine.com\/?p=7101"},"modified":"2025-01-28T11:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:57:07","slug":"how-get-into-sales-no-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theforage.wpengine.com\/careers\/how-get-into-sales-no-experience","title":{"rendered":"How to Get Into Sales With No Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sales can be a highly lucrative, rewarding career path \u2014 and one that doesn’t necessarily involve years of formal education or experience. If you’re new to the workforce and looking to land a role where you can advance quickly, work with others, and see the direct impact of your work, sales might be the right fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But how do you get into the field? We talked to sales professionals and took insights from top companies to create a go-to guide for how to get into sales with no experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Build Key Sales Skills<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sales isn’t a technical career path \u2014 even if you go into tech sales, you don’t need the same formal training as you might with a computer science career, for example. But that doesn’t mean you don’t need specific skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Negotiation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Negotiation skills<\/a> are the skills you use to come to an agreement with someone else \u2014 and hopefully, get most of what you want out of that agreement. These might be the first skills you think of in a sales career; sales professionals may go back and forth with clients to negotiate a contract, whether that’s the pricing, how long the deal is, or the product offering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some sales professionals may follow different negotiation tactics, but the basics are simple: <\/p>\n\n\n\n