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At SalesFirst Recruiting, every team member is equipped to guide you through our hiring process. You’ll start with a Sales Recruiter you’ve likely already connected with. From there, you’ll meet with Dan or Adam in a no-limits Q&A session to ask anything about the role or company. Next, you'll complete our Core Values Index (CVI) to help us understand how you're wired. Finally, you’ll engage in interviews with two recruiters and a Recruiting Manager, diving deeper into your experience, mindset, and leadership instincts.

We are truly unique. Our culture tends to be lighthearted, fun, supportive, but also fiercely competitive and dedicated to learning & growing. We also do our best to make work feel like home. Most teams are remote, and some locations have optional offices with beautiful workstations, dogs begging for treats, music on at all times, modern technologies, private spaces, stocked bars, cozy break rooms, and even espresso machines! And it’s common for previous employees to stop in and say hi to the team.

But even more important than any of that, we have a culture of proper boundaries. This is a team of adults with lives of their own, and SalesFirst doesn't meddle in their personal time.

We regularly contribute to our blog, and we recommend that interested internal candidates at least read through these prior to interviewing.

Pre-Interview Research

Essential Questions to Ask

10 Traits of a Successful Recruiter

A Day in the Life

Structured Interviews

Work Life Harmony

Climbing the Corporate Ladder

Retained, Contained, and Contingent

We’ve believed for many years that a company doesn’t choose its core values, it instead uncovers them.

Here are ours:

Be worthy of loyalty.

Help your teammates any way you can.

Results, not excuses.

Be a student of your profession; learn from every lesson.

Just as some people purchase a car and others lease a car, employers have similar options for their headcount needs. SalesFirst Recruiting primarily focuses on the Direct Hire business. This means that we typically help companies find a new W-2 employee in exchange for a one-time fee. In our case, we charge fees ranging from 20% – 30% of a candidate’s guaranteed income.

In terms of competition, we tend to think of other agencies as our colleagues instead of our competitors. Many agencies have specialties that make them a unique fit for a customer at a given time. SalesFirst is an undisputed leader in sales recruiting. We get countless referrals from our colleagues, and we refer our clients to other agencies when they have a special need that we can’t fill.

If your plan is to find satisfaction in recruiting by helping others, you may love this role, but you might also be disappointed. There will be days where you feel good about helping a candidate or client, and you will certainly build lifelong friendshiips as well- but recruiting in our system is about hard work, professional growth, financial reward, and work-life balance.

You should be ready to accept your fair share of disappointments. Deals fall apart often- for reasons that may seem ridiculous to you. Over the years while you learn and grow here you’ll find ways to avoid common pitfalls, but you’ll have your share of tough days even as a seasoned pro.

Yes and no.
SalesFirst was founded by brothers Adam and Dan Morris, and it was built on values you’d expect from a strong family such as loyalty, trust, and hard work. Those values still guide how we operate, how we treat our team, and how we serve our clients and candidates.

But SalesFirst isn’t a family-run company in the traditional sense. There’s no nepotism here, no board full of relatives, and no family hierarchy influencing business decisions. We’ve grown into a professional recruiting firm where people earn their roles based on performance and impact, not last names.

In short, we have multiple teams at SalesFirst. Our Administrative Headquarters is based out of Portland, Oregon where our team comes in twice per month. The rest of our teams are fully remote and tend to meet up for lunch to stay connected.

Talk to us and we’ll figure out what’s best for you.

We are focused on building a national recruiting firm that scales thoughtfully.

Our growth strategy is centered on three priorities: deepening our presence in key markets, developing leaders from within, and expanding our ability to serve clients across the country without sacrificing quality.

This means helping experienced recruiters build durable client relationships in defined markets, then supporting them as those markets mature and require additional talent. This approach allows us to grow revenue, leadership, and opportunity at the same time.

A Sales Recruiting Agency is the same thing as a Sales Recruiting Firm. We help employers find talented sales professionals. The sales professionals range from SDRs to Account Executives , Outside Sales Reps to Account Managers, and Sales Engineers to Sales Leaders. We serve technology companies, manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and any industry you can think of!

We don’t charge the candidate. We charge a fee to the employer when they hire our candidate.

SalesFirst Recruiting offers a compensation structure that includes a base salary, commissions, and performance-based bonuses.

Everyone receives a set salary depending on their role, providing reliable income. On top of that, team members can earn commissions once they pass a defined revenue threshold each quarter. This threshold is the minimum revenue you need to generate before commissions begin. After surpassing it, you start earning a percentage of the revenue you bring in.