Careers and AI · B2B sales
The verdict for a b2b sales
Trust, reading the client and closing; the prep gets assisted, the relationship doesn't.
What it means that it holds up: the core rests on something AI does not have — a body, presence, a bond, or judgment carrying real responsibility. AI helps at the edges, not at the centre.
In O*NET’s RIASEC framework, b2b sales maps to a ESC profile within the Business family. Which is to say, it turns mostly on:
E · Enterprising: leading, persuading, moving projects.
S · Social: helping, teaching, caring for others.
C · Conventional: ordering, organising, the systematic.
Your trade rests on something the machine does not have. The risk isn't being replaced: it's refusing the tools and ending up out-produced by whoever uses them.
The play for a b2b sales:
Trust between people and complex deals: hard to automate. AI takes the prospecting and the admin - take it, and put the recovered time in the room with the client.
They share a family or interests with b2b sales. Useful if you’re thinking about a move.
Operations director
Mutates
Human resources
Mutates
Estate agent
Mutates
Product manager
Mutates
Founder / entrepreneur
Holds up
Marketing / growth
Mutates
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