When Vendition came to my attention, I thought it was too good to be true. BentoBox had been looking for a solution for hiring inside salespeople and not having much luck. Vendition’s model was perfect for us: cost effective (nearly equivalent to what we’d spend on a direct hire), and talent that’s thoroughly trained on cold calling best practices. Our relationship with Vendition feels more like a partnership than a transaction.

My team and I have been working with Vendition for about a year, and have brought onboard several of their Apprentices. To date, all Apprentices who have completed the 12-week program have been converted to full time Iterable Sales Development Representatives. Organizationally, we have a policy of not engaging traditional external staffing resources for SDR hiring. Vendition has offered us the perfect opportunity to have a wide pipeline of great junior talent to select from, in a cost-neutral manner. Vendition is a valuable partner to Iterable!

We don’t work with external agencies, but we work with Vendition because I don’t think of them in the same way that I think of traditional (low-value) recruitment agencies. They are sales experts and talent scouts who really know the market and provide extra value. We hired one of our top performers through them and, because of their apprenticeship model, we actually spent less to hire that first hire than had our own internal team sourced the candidate.