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How to become a sales development representative: 330 beginner jobs open today
Five steps for people changing careers, with the figures from today’s 988 open sales development representative postings: what employers ask for first, how much experience, and what beginners are paid.
- Open jobs today
- 988
- Open to beginners
- 330
- Experience asked, median
- 1 years
- Beginner pay, median
- $85K
Five steps to your first sales development representative job
- Know what the work is. A sales development representative makes the first contact with possible customers and books meetings for the sales team; a common first job in sales. Beginner postings today use titles like Business Development Representative; Sales Development Representative; Manager, Sales Development; Enterprise Business Development Representative; Business Development Representative (BDR).
- Learn the skills employers name first. In today’s 988 postings: HubSpot (9%).
- Build proof you can show. Two or three results with a number, from a job, a course project or volunteer work. The kind of line a recruiter looks for: “Booked 22 qualified meetings a month against a target of 15”.
- Write the resume and the letter. Start from the sales development representative resume example and the cover letter example, and replace every line with your own.
- Apply where beginners are hired. 330 of today’s 988 open sales development representative jobs are junior or intern roles or ask for two years of experience or less. See the open jobs and check each one with the resume match checker before you apply.
Questions about becoming a sales development representative
- How much experience do sales development representative jobs ask for?
- The median in today’s postings is 1 years; 82% of the postings that name a number ask for two years or less.
- Do I need a degree to become a sales development representative?
- 5% of today’s 988 postings say no degree is required. Many others accept equivalent experience: read the requirements of each posting.
- How much does a beginner sales development representative earn?
- Junior and intern postings for this work that state pay advertise a median of $85K a year (103 postings).
Everything about sales development representative work
Counted from the open postings on Nov 14, 2026, read from employers’ own careers pages and recounted on every update. Beginner jobs: junior and intern titles, and postings that ask for two years of experience or less.