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How to Screen Sales Development Representative Resumes
SDR resumes lean on activity — calls dialed, emails sent — because top-of-funnel work is easy to count and hard to qualify. The job is pipeline generation: booking meetings that convert into accepted, qualified opportunities. A practical screen separates reps who created real pipeline from ones who logged a lot of activity that went nowhere.
Rank your candidate pool →What to screen for
Core qualifications
- Meetings booked and qualified opportunities created, with the quota behind them
- Conversion evidence — how many booked meetings became AE-accepted, qualified pipeline
- Outbound versus inbound mix that matches the motion you're hiring for
- Quota attainment as a percentage across multiple months, not one strong stretch
- Tooling and process fit (outreach cadences, CRM hygiene, the sequencer you run)
Red flags
What to watch for in sales development representative resumes
- Activity metrics (calls, emails) with no meetings, opportunities, or pipeline behind them
- "Booked meetings" with no quota, no conversion rate, and no accepted-opportunity count
- Pure inbound experience presented as cold-outbound prospecting, or vice versa
- One strong month or quarter with no consistency across the tenure
- Title says SDR/BDR but the achievements describe full-cycle closing
Worth verifying
Claims that are easy to write, hard to back up
- "Booked 40 meetings a month" — how many became AE-accepted, qualified pipeline?
- "Hit 130% of quota" — quota measured in meetings, opportunities, or pipeline dollars?
- "Generated $X in pipeline" — sourced by them, and how much closed?
- "Crushed my activity targets" — and what did the activity actually convert into?
The fast way
Screen sales development representatives faster
For SDR reqs, weight created pipeline over logged activity. Anyone can dial 80 times a day; the signal is meetings that AEs accepted and opportunities that became real pipeline. Rank on qualified-opportunity output and conversion, match the outbound/inbound mix to your motion, and probe any resume where the only numbers are calls and emails with nothing downstream attached.
Resume Autopsy ranks your whole sales development representative applicant pool against the job description in minutes — a 0–100 fit score and a MATCH / PARTIAL / MISS checklist with evidence quotes for every candidate, so you know who to interview first and can defend the call.
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