SV Academy
SV Academy offers intensive training programs that prepare job seekers for entry-level positions in Sales or Customer Success, with a focus on underrepresented groups. The academy provides ongoing mentorship and career coaching, helping graduates secure jobs quickly and achieve high retention and promotion rates.
Services
SV Academy offers a comprehensive program designed to prepare job seekers for entry-level roles in Sales or Customer Success. The program focuses on intensive training that can be completed in as little as two weeks, followed by a 90-day residency period. During this residency, participants receive ongoing training and mentorship. The Academy also provides tailored candidate profiling, sourcing, screening, and interviewing services to match applicants with employer needs. Additionally, SV Academy offers on-the-job career coaching for up to six months and mentorship to ensure new hires ramp up quickly and effectively meet their metrics.
Training and Mentorship
SV Academy conducts intensive training programs prior to the first day at the employer’s company, with each session lasting around two weeks. Post-training, residents have weekly mentor calls and additional training sessions throughout their 90-day residency period. This approach aims to reduce ramp time significantly, ensuring that participants can hit their performance metrics swiftly. On average, SV Academy residents onboard 3.5 times faster than typical new hires, with a retention rate of 83% once onboarded. Furthermore, 60% of graduates receive promotions within their first year.
Diversity and Inclusion
SV Academy places a strong emphasis on diversity and inclusion within their training programs. Over 76% of their graduates come from underrepresented groups. The company has a mission to generate $100 billion in wealth expansion for these job seekers. Their community includes a network of over 3,000 diverse Sales Development Representatives across the Software as a Service (SaaS) industry, ensuring a robust support system and network for recent graduates.
Employer Benefits
SV Academy partners with over 500 companies, helping them to find and train top-performing sales and client experience professionals. Employers can expect to find great talent five times faster and with no fees for recruitment, onboarding, and training. Moreover, SV Academy acts as an extension of the management team to ensure that new hires are quickly ramped up and hitting required metrics. Their tailored candidate profiles and intensive training programs lead to significant efficiency gains in onboarding and talent retention.
Collaborations and Impact
SV Academy has joined forces with organizations like Coursera and the Milken Institute to provide free on-demand educational resources to over 200,000 Americans. Their Salesforce and SV Academy Sales Development Representative Professional Certificate have already benefitted more than 15,000 learners. SV Academy's initiative also includes a significant network of early-career sales professionals, producing hundreds of new graduates every month. To date, more than 3,000 learners have graduated from their programs, contributing to the larger mission of creating wealth expansion for underrepresented job seekers.