Posts by shalini@pulserecruitment.com.au

Every quarter, GTM leaders across ANZ ask some version of the same question: are we building the right team for what’s coming, or the team that made sense eighteen months ago? Heading into the back half of 2026, the honest answer for most companies is the latter. Team structures built during the growth-at-all-costs years are…

Every sales conference session, every vendor pitch, and a fair share of LinkedIn posts over the past two years have made some version of the claim that AI is transforming sales. Most of these claims are either significantly overstated or so vague they’re impossible to actually evaluate. The real picture is more specific and, in…

Forecast accuracy is one of the most consistently poor metrics across tech sales organisations, and it’s rarely because the underlying methodology is complicated. Most CRM forecasting tools can handle weighted pipeline, stage-based probability, and historical trend analysis without much difficulty. The problem almost never sits with the tooling. It sits with the inputs, the incentives…

Five years ago, a standard enterprise discovery call ran forty-five minutes to an hour. Today, plenty of buyers across ANZ are pushing back on anything longer than twenty, and some are declining a discovery call altogether in favour of a written brief or a short async video. This shift has crept up on a lot…