Sales can be a rewarding and exciting career—not to mention lucrative, once you’ve mastered the art of closing a deal. Plus, the skills you develop on the job are easily transferable to different companies and industries, so you’ll have plenty of options throughout your career.
If you’re looking to get your first sales job, take a closer look at the employers below—they’re all actively filling entry-level roles. On this list, you’ll find industry giants like Allstate and Spectrum, as well as newer businesses like software companies KnowBe4 and Panorama Education.
And here at The Muse, you can hear from real employees about what it’s like to work at these companies before you apply. Take Ramon Basie, a senior account executive at DHI Group, who loves the flexible work culture. "DHI promotes work-life harmony and creates the space through its policies for its employees to spend time doing what they love outside of work,” he says.
Keep reading to learn more about these employers and the sales roles they have available right now.
1. Allstate
We’re a global corporation and industry leader. As an employer, we believe that connection and belonging are essential to our employees’ ability to grow, learn, and lead meaningful lives. Whether you’re an intern just starting out on your career, or a lawyer, sales manager, or engineer—we want you to feel welcomed and excited to do work that matters—that helps make our collective good, great.
2. Spectrum
Spectrum is a leading broadband communications company and the second-largest cable operator in the United States. They provide a full range of advanced broadband services, including Spectrum TV video entertainment programming, Spectrum Internet access, and Spectrum Voice to connect more people in more places. Spectrum employees take pride in their fast-paced, dynamic work culture and encourage each other to reach their full potential.
3. Advia Credit Union
Advia Credit Union offers easy-access financial solutions to nearly 200,000 members living or working within lower Michigan and a growing number of counties throughout Wisconsin and Illinois. With highly trained and engaged team members, the organization is able to offer the most complete and competitive checking and savings accounts, loan packages, and investment plans for real people, brands, and businesses.
4. Insight Global
This isn’t a place to simply have a job. This is the place to build a lifelong career. One that you’re proud of. One that energizes and motivates you.
At Insight Global, we all begin in the same place. We all start as recruiters to learn the business from the ground up. IG only promotes from within and we hire you based on the assumption that it’s for life. From day one, you are supported by a team of mentors to show you the ropes, provide context, tools, and guidance every step of the way. From there, the sky’s the limit. The opportunities are endless and we’ll partner with you to map your journey based on your unique potential and passion.
5. Autodesk
At Autodesk, we believe that when you have the right tools to work and think flexibly you have the power to transform what actually needs making and to design and make a better world for all. For more than four decades, we’ve worked together with our customers to transform how things are made and in doing so, we’ve also transformed what can be made. Today our solutions span countless industries and empower innovators everywhere. But we’re restless to do more. We don’t believe in waiting for progress, we believe in making it. By combining and recombining technologies, blurring boundaries, reinventing rules, unleashing talent, and unlocking insights across industries, we help our customers converge on solutions to the challenges we all face today.
The Muse 2022 VIBE Awards Winner: Best Companies for Vacation and Time Off, Parental Benefits, Work Flexibility, Financial and Retirement Benefits (honorable mention), Health and Wellness Benefits (honorable mention), and Office Life and Perks (honorable mention).
Here at The Muse, we partner with a lot of great companies to bring you insider looks at their offices and awesome job listings. These employers pay us to be featured on the site, but these Muse-worthy brands made this list not just because they want to be included, but because their culture, policies, and employee feedback showed us that they deserve to be.
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