What services does SalesFirst Recruiting offer Employers?

SalesFirst Recruiting offers recruiting services for sales, sales support, and marketing positions. We offer executive search services for leaders. And we offer consulting to make sure companies are saying and doing the right things to attract the right talent.

How does SalesFirst Recruiting charge for its services?

First and foremost, our service is free to candidates. We charge employers for our services. For direct hire, SalesFirst charges a one-time fee to employers who hire our referred candidates. For contract staffing and temp-to-hire, we pay candidates on our own payroll and then charge an hourly rate to our employer clients.

What type of consulting does SalesFirst Recruiting offer Employers?

We consult employers on how to write job descriptions, structure hiring processes, define performance expectations, and craft interview questions. Our team also helps clients refine their pitch to candidates—ensuring they’re telling the right story to attract top sales and marketing professionals.

How is SalesFirst Recruiting different from other recruiting firms?

SalesFirst Recruiting combines the deep expertise of recruiter-led search with tech-enabled systems that reduce bias, misfires, and time-to-fill. Every search is backed by process, personality science, and hands-on collaboration.

FAQs — Sales & Marketing Recruiting Agency

SalesFirst Recruiting is a nationwide recruiting and staffing firm specializing in sales, marketing, and leadership roles across a wide range of industries.

We offer direct hire, retained search, contract staffing, and contract-to-hire services backed by expert recruiters and AI-powered tools that help us move faster, dig deeper, and make better matches.

Our team has a deep understanding of the sales profession and the unique challenges that come with hiring high-performing, client-facing talent. From SaaS and healthcare to finance, manufacturing, and service-based businesses, we support organizations of all sizes in building world-class teams.

For job seekers, we offer resume guidance, interview prep, and strategic career coaching to help candidates land opportunities that align with their skills, goals, and values.

We’ve woven custom tools into every stage of our recruiting process. Each candidate conversation is backed by technology that captures nuanced data, flags key signals, and helps match the right person to the right role with clarity and confidence.

These tools level the playing field giving even junior team members the ability to source and assess talent like seasoned experts, ensuring consistency, speed, and quality across every search.

We also use top-shelf, AI-powered platforms like Loxo, our fully integrated ATS built to find, track, and enrich data on top talent. Combined with LinkedIn’s most premium recruiting suite, we’re able to launch highly targeted outreach campaigns and access nearly every professional in the U.S. Active or passive.

And finally, we integrate the Core Values Index (CVI) into our process. Because personality alignment matters, we use CVI data to ensure every candidate we send thrives inside your culture & role.

We specialize exclusively in sales, marketing, and leadership roles, and we have done so since 2012. Staying in one lane has allowed us to build deeper networks, sharper judgment, and a more reliable process than firms that try to recruit for everything.

Our recruiters stay. Tenure matters in recruiting, and our team stability means clients benefit from experienced professionals who understand the market, know how to assess performance, and are accountable to long-term outcomes rather than short-term wins.

We rely on proven systems, not improvisation. Every search follows a structured process built around performance-based interviewing, market mapping, and quality controls that reduce misfires. Technology supports the process, but recruiter judgment leads it.

We ask better questions. Candidates are evaluated on how they have performed in real environments, not just how well they interview. Clients consistently tell us this leads to stronger alignment and fewer surprises after hire.

Most importantly, we operate as a partner, not a transaction. We communicate clearly, stay engaged until the job is done, and prioritize long-term trust over short-term placements. Our goal is to help you make a confident hiring decision that holds up over time.

SalesFirst Recruiting offers recruiting services for sales, sales leadership, sales support, and marketing positions.

We offer contingent services for many positions and also offer retained searches for executives and other difficult-to-fill roles.

And we offer consulting to make sure companies are saying and doing the right things to attract the right talent.

In addition to helping you to define your ideal sales profile, (skills, experience, personality traits, and qualifications), we craft a compelling employer brand and value proposition, highlight what makes your company unique, what benefits and incentives you offer, and what career opportunities you provide .

We then use multiple sourcing channels, such as job boards, social media, referrals, industry events, recruiting software, and professional relationships to reach out to potential candidates on your behalf.

Many searches that are commonly referred to as contingent searches are what we call Core searches. Core searches work well for roles like account executives, outside sales reps, and sales development reps, where the talent pool is active and performance is easier to evaluate early.

Some roles require more structure. Difficult-to-fill, specialized, or business-critical positions often benefit from additional commitment, longer guarantees, and tighter alignment throughout the process. In those cases, a Strategic or fully Retained search may be the better fit.

There is no single right answer for every company or every role. The best approach depends on the importance of the position, the competitiveness of the market, and the level of structure your team wants. Our team will recommend the right framework based on your search, and you can explore the differences between each option to decide what works best for you here.

SalesFirst Recruiting offers direct hire recruiting, contract staffing, and temp-to-hire services.

We almost always recommend direct hire for sales professionals and leaders, and we’ll help you pick the right service when hiring for sales support or marketing professionals.

SalesFirst is always free for candidates. We never charge job seekers. Our services are paid for by employers.

We offer three types of direct hire services and two types of contract-based services.

Direct hire services

All direct hire services are priced as a percentage of a candidate’s guaranteed first-year income. Fees typically range from 20 percent to 30 percent, with 25 percent being the most common. The difference between the three options is the level of structure, commitment, and guarantee tied to the search.

Core Search
This is our most common direct hire service and is often what companies think of as “contingent” recruiting. There is no down payment, and the fee is paid only if you hire a candidate we introduce. Core searches include a 90 day guarantee and are well suited for roles like account executives, outside sales reps, and sales development roles.

Strategic Search
Strategic searches include a down payment but do not require exclusivity. They carry a 180 day guarantee and are designed for harder-to-fill or higher-impact roles that benefit from more upfront alignment and longer protection.

Executive Search
Executive searches include a down payment and full exclusivity. These searches come with a 365 day guarantee and are used for critical leadership or highly specialized roles that require dedicated focus and long-term alignment. Any down payment is applied toward the final placement fee upon hire.

All direct hire searches include a full account credit and a pro-rated cash refund option, tied to the guarantee period of the search.

Contract and temporary services

Contract staffing
SalesFirst employs the professional on our own payroll and bills the client an hourly rate for the duration of the assignment.

Temp-to-hire
This works similarly to contract staffing, with the option for the client to convert the professional to a full-time hire under agreed terms.

Even the very best companies sometimes need help from a small group of experts. We are often asked to help companies fine-tune their interview process, build competitive comp plans, and get each department in the company on the same page for communicating properly with candidates.

The vast majority of our advice is free, and we also offer paid workshops.

Any candidate that moves through our system will find themselves earning real-world coaching to properly navigate the job-search. We help our candidates relax in the interview process by coaching on authenticity, confidence, and clearly communicating their strengths and weaknesses. We call this Authentic Interviewing, and we’ve helped thousands of candidates earn their dream job this way.

The very best way to start is by applying to our open roles. That way, the proper recruiters see your applications come in immediately. SalesFirst Open Roles

But if you are in a rush and would rather not search through open roles, you can also submit a resume here, and our team of recruiters will see it come through. Future Positions from SalesFirst

The short answer is “it depends.” Every month SalesFirst has a new mix of search assignments, and we are obsessed with finding the right fit, not the quickest fit.

Additionally, the candidates that accept our “Authentic Interview Coaching” tend to get placed faster with higher retention rates.

We are generally open Monday - Friday from 8am - 5pm. And recruiters tend to work flexible hours to make themselves available to candidates and clients.