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We’re helping 25,000 Black 🙋🏾‍♂️, Brown 🙋🏽‍♀️ & POCs launch 🚀 careers in tech sales and cumulatively make $30 Billion💰 in the next 20 years.

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Joined May 2016
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After a practice sales conversation, note which task held your attention: researching the buyer, asking questions or following up. Ask someone in the role how often they do that work. Use the answer to decide what to explore next.
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Before using a nonprofit outcome percentage, ask who is in the denominator. All participants, graduates and people who answered a follow-up are different groups. Keep that definition and the reporting period beside the number.
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Explaining an outreach exercise in an interview? Name the audience you chose and the reason your message fit. Then explain what you would test next. Label practice work clearly. You can show your thinking without inventing results.
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Choose one piece of feedback to test this week. Write the change in your own words, try it in a practice conversation and notice what happens. Give advice a chance to become a skill.
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A professional relationship can grow through a useful update. Share what you tried after a conversation, what you learned and what question came next. You do not need a big announcement to follow through.
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Ask for evidence that fits the skill. If the role requires explaining complex ideas, let a candidate walk through a simple example and answer a follow-up. Make the task and expectations clear in advance.
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At the end of a search session, choose the next task before closing the laptop. Make it small enough to start: check one requirement, revise one example or prepare one question.
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Plan volunteer support around a learner task, not only a meeting length. Reviewing one outreach message or rehearsing one answer gives both people a clear place to begin.
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A beginner can practice discovery with an everyday service. Ask how someone uses it, where the process breaks down and what a better experience would change. Work on understanding before pitching.
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After offering advice, make room for the response: What feels useful? What does not fit your situation? Good support leaves the learner with choices and a next step they can own.
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Help keep career training free for the next person ready to put in the work. Your gift supports training, coaching, learning tools and professional relationships. They bring the effort. give.reworktraining.org/camp…
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When an interview answer feels too long, keep one situation and one decision. Explain your part, then pause. You can add detail when the interviewer asks for it.
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Your team. Real contribution. Sponsor career training. Bring employees into mock interviews, skills labs or career conversations. Participants bring the commitment. Your team brings funding, perspective and feedback. Message us to explore a sponsorship.
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For a practice interview, agree on feedback criteria before you start. For example: was the situation clear, was their contribution specific and could you follow the result? Shared criteria make the debrief easier to use.
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Different starting points. Different career directions. Their effort belongs to them. Your gift helps re:WORK offer free training, coaching and opportunities to build professional relationships. give.reworktraining.org/camp…
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Ask a learner what changed after receiving support. A clearer answer, a revised work sample or a new question is worth recording. Keep those observations separate from confirmed employment outcomes.
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The work behind the move: research, practice, feedback and follow-through. Donors help keep re:WORK career training free. Help sustain the coaching, tools and practice behind the next step. give.reworktraining.org/camp…
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Build a short company research note: customer, problem, product, unanswered question. Use public sources and mark what you do not know. Curiosity is more useful than pretending to be an expert.
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Your experience could help someone prepare for a new role. Ask a useful question. Listen closely. Give specific feedback. Help a jobseeker try again. Message re:WORK TRAINING to explore career conversations or mock interview volunteering.
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Try a two-round coaching exercise. In round one, notice where the learner jumps to a solution. In round two, have them ask one more clarifying question before offering an idea.
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