Great mentorship + Valuable experience = Easy choice
Pros
Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to sales. Vendition’s bootcamp gave me all the context and info I needed to successfully navigate sales interviews and set me up well to hit the ground running. For what it’s worth, I haven’t failed a single first round sales interview since completing the Bootcamp and apprenticeship. This was from not even being able to get interviews initially. The Bootcamp was valuable not just to my day-to-day skillset as an SDR but also to my career. I worked with Sam, who I cannot give enough props. I wanted to give him a spotlight because he was amazing at supporting me throughout my apprenticeship. Sam goes totally above and beyond for all his mentees and is just an all around solid dude. We made sure to keep in touch and he even helped me nail my next opportunity with a late stage unicorn. I had been out of the program already and he was in no way obligated or financially incentivized to do this, which I highly appreciated. The apprenticeship + bootcamp combo becomes twice as valuable if you are low on post-grad experience because having demonstrable sales experience immediately differentiates you from other fresh grad applicants and shows initiative on your part. TLDR: Treat your mentor as a trusted advisor and you will reap immense rewards.
Cons
You likely won’t see much benefit past the Sales Bootcamp Certification if you are unwilling to put time and effort into your mentor-mentee relationship. This means regularly attending check-ins and above all, a willingness to be frank about your performance and roadblocks on the job. I also didn’t really feel engaged with the other people going through the Bootcamp at the same time despite the community Slack channel. Pay is lower than what you would get with a vanilla SDR job, but they are transparent about it. This a tradeoff you need to weigh thoughtfully because you are a less proven sales commodity and their network will open doors for you. My two cents though, 3 months isn’t really all that long of a time to tighten the belt in order to jump up an entire income bracket. That said, you may feel differently so wanted to flag it.