Sales Representative resume keywords
What a sales representative resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.
Also covers: Sales Rep, Account Executive, Sales Executive, Inside Sales, Outside Sales, Sales Consultant, Business Development Representative, Sales Development Representative, SDR, BDR.
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Skills and keywords
These are the terms most consistently used to screen sales representative applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.
Example bullets
Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.
- Closed amount in new business, hitting N% of quota.
- Booked N qualified meetings a month from cold outreach.
- Grew a territory from amount to amount in period.
- Ranked #N of N reps on the team for metric.
Verbs that signal ownership
Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”: