Sales

Sales Representative Resume Example and Writing Guide

Sales hiring managers go straight to numbers: quota, attainment, deal size and pipeline. A sales resume should make your results the first thing they see.

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Resume summary example

Replace everything in [brackets] with your own details. Keep it to three or four lines and make every claim one you can back up.

Sales representative with [X] years of experience selling [product/service] to [customer type]. Achieved [quota attainment] in [period]. Strong in [prospecting, closing, account growth].

Skills to put on a sales representative resume

Hard skills

✓Prospecting and lead generation
✓Pipeline management
✓CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot)
✓Negotiation and closing
✓Account management
✓Product demos
✓Forecasting
✓Cold outreach

Soft skills

✓Resilience
✓Active listening
✓Relationship building
✓Self-motivation
✓Time management

Only list skills you genuinely have, and put the ones the job posting asks for first.

Keywords recruiters and ATS look for

Use the exact wording from the job description where it is true for you. These terms come up often in this field:

quota attainmentpipelineB2B saleslead generationCRMnegotiationaccount managementrevenue growthclosing

Bullet point formulas

Start with a strong verb, say what you did, and finish with the result. Fill in your real numbers. If you do not have a number, describe what changed instead.

Achieved [percentage] of quota in [period], ranking [position] of [number] reps.
Generated [amount] in new revenue by [approach] across [number] accounts.
Built a pipeline of [amount] through [outbound/inbound] prospecting.
Grew key accounts by [percentage] through [upsell or cross-sell].