Starting out as a door-to-door salesman, Ali is now a rising star at Microsoft. Because of the growth opportunities and sales experience he could gain with us, Ali chose Specialist at Microsoft Paddls as his training school. We are proud that he will continue his career at Microsoft! Ali talks about his transition to B2B sales and his growth path at Paddls.
When did you start at Paddls and what did you do before?
I started at Paddls in May 2018. Before that I was a door-to-door salesman in the security industry, selling locks and anti-burglary products, among other things.
Why did you choose Paddls? Specialist at Microsoft
One day I came to Paddls colleague Petra’s door. We started talking. She told me that Paddls was looking for people and that I would fit the profile. I let it pass me by. But when I wanted to take steps six months later, I thought back to that conversation and I got in touch.
I chose Paddls because it offered me more philippines phone number library future prospects than my job at the time. I wanted to gain more knowledge in the field of sales and B2B. With my knowledge of people and my sales experience, I expected that I would be able to grow further at Paddls. I have a drive to use my potential as best as possible, the will to grow personally. And that is what Paddls stands for; for growth. The idea of a ‘springboard’ appealed to me.
What ambitions or goals did you have when you came here?
I wanted to gain more experience in sales pix schedule: understand the changes for transactions in 2025 for a larger organization. And I wanted to see if B2B suited me and what I thought of IT. It turned out I really liked it.
How has your growth path at Paddls been? Specialist at Microsoft
I started at Paddls as an Executive Marketeer; Junior Inside Sales, so to speak. In the first period I did projects for iBabs, Microsoft and PQR, among others. In order to progress to Sales Marketeer/Inside Sales I had to meet certain KPIs. I more than met them, so after 7 months I became a Sales Marketeer. I had shown that I could run projects independently, could write scripts myself and that I understood my task package.
As a Sales Marketeer I was also allowed to belgium numbers do assignments for DELL and NetApp, for example. In my pursuit of personal development I wanted to grow further into Executive Sales. I also clearly indicated this to my manager. Two months later my chance came and I was allowed to start at Microsoft on location as Inside Sales, for the Surface team and the Education team. That was fun. Within the Education team I had the title ‘Ali from the Education Desk’. I was the connection between schools and the Microsoft Education team, to see where support was needed. For Surface my goal was to make customers enthusiastic to start a conversation about our beautiful devices.