8 tips to help real estate agents advance in their careers

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According to experienced real estate experts, you must have your distinctive secret to have a strong attachment to the job, achieve good work results, and advance to higher positions.

In recent years, real estate jobs have attracted loads of people because of their attractive income and flexible working hours. In practice, however, many people who entered the profession not long ago had to quit midway because of many barriers and difficulties. Is there any secret to staying firm and achieving many outstanding achievements in the profession? Follow Navigos Search to discover the best tips below. You will become an excellent real estate agent and develop your career well.

1. Take advantage of every opportunity for career development

If you’re working at a business providing intensive training sessions in the field of real estate, sales skills, and management skills, don't miss them to improve your expertise for your career.

If the company you're working for does not regularly organize such training sessions, bravely propose to your superiors so that they know that such knowledge is crucial and necessary for you and the organization itself. The company should spend a lot of time training and developing human resources.

Seize the opportunity to improve your expertise

2. Eager to learn about the real estate market and geographical area

You cannot advise and support clients well if you are not knowledgeable about the field you are doing. Real estate is an extensive field affected by many factors such as location, infrastructure, policy, and demand, and each area will have its price level and preferred segment.

If you don't want to be left behind, you must constantly learn and update new knowledge frequently to give clients advice smoothly and bring them the most helpful things. With complete and accurate knowledge, you will build a suitable business scenario, ready to answer all clients questions and help the cooperation process go more smoothly.

3. Have passion for real estate work

If you are in a depressed mood, you cannot work long and successfully. Passion is a critical stepping stone on the sustainable career development journey. Many people choose to work as a real estate agent just because of the appearance of salary and bonus spread by word of mouth in the market. However, in the sales profession in general and real estate sales in particular, it is inevitable to avoid arising cases such as contract cancellation or clients changing their decisions at the last minute. Thus, if you're not fond of and want to have a long attachment to the profession, you will be easily discouraged after only a few months of pursuing it and then give it up.

4. Try different ways of selling real estate

When you first step into the real estate company, you will be trained in sales knowledge. After working-time, you will gain lots of valuable experience, gradually forming your distinctive working style. However, if you want to pursue this career for a long time and have ambitions to progress to a management position, you need to know more than a particular sales style.

As a leader, you have to guide and train heaps of employees. Actively arm yourself with many different types of real estate sales to guide your employees well. Real estate specialists are always willing to try many ways and selling techniques and make them their own to be more flexible and improvise at work.

Applying different ways of selling real estate bring you valuable experience

5. Be flexible and manage time well

A busy schedule with meetings, contract negotiations, and client consulting can make real estate staff overwhelmed. Therefore, being flexible, prioritizing work, and managing time effectively will help you get the job done first and build trust and credibility in each client.

In addition, in this profession, overtime appointments are all too typical. You need to be ready at all times if you want to meet or exceed your goals and gain more achievements to increase your chances of promotion.

6. Have excellent communication and persuasion skills

You will often interact with clients, so communication skills are indispensable. During conversations, you must use words accurately and appropriately for each context and each client. To improve these skills, you must practice daily to create opportunities for communication, close reasoning, and skillful directing to persuade clients successfully.

7. Build your relationships

Building relationships is critical in the real estate profession. If you were the client, you would only want to do business with people you trust and know. Therefore, try to exchange and connect with friends and actively participate in specialized seminars to expand and build better relationships with many people.

8. Always persevere

Any job requires perseverance. With real estate, persistence is several times more. Not only greenhorns but also senior employees find it difficult to avoid the feeling of wanting to give up halfway and always have to remind themselves to be patient before all work situations.

In addition, real estate staff also have to please everybody. When meeting difficult and irritable clients, if you are a narcissist, you will not accept being scolded. Therefore, this job is not for people with big egos and easily-to-anger. Always persevere and ready to work with any client to become a professional, experienced one and have the opportunity to advance to higher positions in the industry such as real estate manager or real estate chief customer officer.

Persistence and patience are indispensable qualities of real estate agents

Navigos Search hopes that real estate agents will have more information and good tips to develop their careers better through the above sharing. To make steady progress on the real estate career path, candidates must find the appropriate position and working environment. And Navigos Search is the perfect choice for candidates to take the first solid step in their careers.

Established in 2002, Navigos Search is considered Vietnam's leading high-level personnel recruitment agency. With a team of experienced consultants who deeply understand all fields of industry and the personnel value along with a strict working process based on capacity, experience, and labor market situation, Navigos Search will advise candidates on the most suitable job position.

After the candidate has been selected, our recruitment specialist will closely assist in the candidate's preparation for the job and other relevant necessary stages. We will also continue to accompany the candidate during the process of "success after achieving the dream job".

In addition to the job positions that are updated daily and weekly, there is a lot of information about the market and helpful articles about personnel updated by Navigos Search on Linkedin and Facebook. Don't miss them. Thank you for reading!

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