Sales is the one field where a resume without hard numbers is actively disqualifying — a sales manager reading "exceeded targets" without a percentage assumes you're hiding a mediocre number.
Contact → Summary (deal type + quota context) → Experience (quota attainment first line of each role) → Skills → Education. Lead every role with your quota performance — it's the single fastest signal a sales manager scans for.
Every bullet should include a number: quota %, deal size, pipeline value, or win rate. Vague achievement language reads as evasive in sales specifically, more than any other field.
Name your quota, average deal size, and sales motion (SMB, mid-market, enterprise) explicitly — these numbers let a hiring manager instantly judge whether your experience matches their team's deal profile.
If you were ranked among peers (President's Club, top 10%, #1 in region), include it — ranking context tells a hiring manager your number was strong relative to a real bar, not just relative to a lenient quota.
Quota attainment percentage, deal size and sales motion, CRM familiarity, and any ranking or award. Those four things should be visible in the first few lines without scrolling.
The most common mistakes are describing quota attainment vaguely ("exceeded target" instead of "128% of quota"), omitting deal size and sales motion, listing "relationship building" as a skill instead of a result, and failing to name the specific CRM used.
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