Kelly Kooij
Sales

Exact wants you to grow

Want to grow your career at Exact? Kelly has some simple advice: just look around you.

“Your colleagues at Exact are always very welcoming if you ask whether you can tag along with them, so you can get a sense of what their job is like.”

Exploring the company

Kelly started her career at Exact as a recruiter. This helped her get a clear sense of all the different role and the types of people and personalities they required.

"Being a recruiter showed me about all the possibilities at Exact. It also taught me where my talents lie and what kind of work I like. The commercial aspect of recruitment was a big draw for me. I like working with targets, so it made sense to move to Sales.”

Doing is the new growing

"Through my experience in recruitment I'd gained familiarity with HR. This made it fun for me to join Sales and focus on the HR products of Exact. I understood where our (future) customers were coming from and what challenges they were facing.

On the other hand, I didn't have any knowledge of finance at first, so talking to prospective customers about the accounting products Exact has in its portfolio was more challenging. Exact really helped me master that. By tagging along with Support, joining colleagues and following courses, I was able to quickly get the hang of everything. I even got courses specifically aimed at improving my sales capabilities.

There's many opportunities to grow. For me it was simply a matter of doing the job I wanted to do and having my colleagues at Exact support me in my journey.”