- Support a successful agent and learn to sell with a friendly supportive team.
- Salary (no starving) + Commission (uncapped earnings potential) + full training.
- One of the oldest agencies on the Lower North Shore + active sales management.
Great learning opportunity: clear plan & supportive management help to build your sales career. Join Richardson & Wrench North Sydney!
This is a unique opportunity to get the career you really want to have in real estate. Before you sign up for any one of the dozens of residential sales jobs always on offer, think about this unique pathway.
THE ROLE
Start as PA to one of our experienced agents helping with administration, marketing and client support while learning to sell. Whether you are looking for a career change or a career start and you are local who wants to help clients with their biggest financial decision, this is the opportunity you have been waiting for.
The Challenge
You’ve probably heard that real estate has the highest paid sales staff, so no wonder the role attracts the very best people. However, listing real estate is far from easy; the survival rate of people starting in sales roles is less than 10% within two years.
Why is this?
Think about it, you’re new to real estate selling and you’re trying to convince homeowners that selling their most valuable asset, the biggest financial transaction of their life, should be handed over to a rookie. These homeowners already know who the selling “superstars” are in the local community, their faces are all over the ‘for sale signs’ and the homeowner wants them to sell it, not you.
So what happens to rookies?
Rookies are often shown a desk, given a phone and a list of properties which might be no more than a local phone book (perhaps in electronic form) and left to get on with it ALONE. Without any training they struggle through the work and spend hours prospecting and continuously hear ‘you’re who’ and ‘why would I want your help?’ and when they secure an appraisal they are overwhelmed by the complexity of closing a listing and selling the home.
SO WHAT ARE WE OFFERING TO ENSURE YOUR SUCCESS?
60+ years of experience and strength of reputation:
Our office is the unbroken evolution from Peter Hill Real Estate, starting in 1953, into Peter Hill First National in 1992, in 2010 becoming First National North Sydney finally in 2016 merging with Richardson & Wrench. The business is now owned and managed by partners Mark Smith and Tim O’Halloran who between them have almost as much specialist experience in Real Estate as the business has longevity.
Along with being one of the longest-serving agencies in the Lower North Shore we are truly a full-service business offering our community all aspects of real estate services from Residential Sales and Property Management, Commercial Sales/Leasing as well as Property Management and Tourism Sales.
Think about what over 60 years of local experience really means. It means:
- Generations of dedicated real estate professionals who have between them built and served a massive client base; not just homeowners or buyers, landlords or tenants, but project developers, architects, council planners, business and community leaders and local organisations.
- You are representing a well recognised local brand. When you contact landlords on behalf of Richardson & Wrench you will benefit from a unique combination of local market recognition and a strong national identity. When you contact any member of our community you will not hear them ask ‘you’re from where?’
- It also means many years of dedication to a strong business ethics and continuous improvement of systems that have allowed our businesses to continue to serve the local community so well that we have prospered through numerous economic challenges over those years.
Our training support for you
You will hear this from everyone but what does it mean? Does it mean that they will send you to a few days of training once in a while? Usually, after you have struggled for many months to prove your endurance but exhausted your energy and bank account.
Our approach is entirely different; we take your training needs seriously.
We have a rigorous selection process (more about that later), so if we choose to offer you a role in our organisation we expect you to succeed and we back our expectation with a formal training process with personal tuition from a Sydney trainer that starts in your first week.
We utilise the specialist resources of dedicated real estate training companies as well as an extensive range of specialist Richardson & Wrench workshops.
Tim and Mark both have weekly sales meetings and specialist training sessions designed to help all staff. This builds an environment for success, underpinned by teamwork and great values. The Principals will work with you to define realistic goals that support and assist you in growing your career.
Location Location Location
Having always been in the heart of the busy commercial footprint of North Sydney we have recently moved to a spacious purpose fitted office on street level at 66 Berry Street. Yep, right in the middle of the busiest pedestrian section of North Sydney and in the street with the GREATEST TRAFFIC flow every day! How is that a good idea? Well, that’s millions of cars passing every year just metres from our signage. That’s the sort of exposure building rights can never give you.
Combine that with the many ‘For Sale’ boards erected by our busy sales team through the residential areas and you have true local exposure.
Innovation and technology
Real estate selling is a sophisticated process utilising the latest technology and online marketing techniques. Here at Richardson & Wrench North Sydney we pride ourselves in a website of the highest quality providing the latest technology has to offer in tools to both our vendors and buyers.
This also extends to a range of contact management tools including an extensive presence in social media which helps you provide the best level of service to our expanding market.
The right financial package for you
We understand it takes time and resources to build a real estate selling career. That’s why we offer a base retainer plus commission package. We don’t want you starving to death before you have a chance to reach your selling potential.
We have realistic targets for your first year with us that are balanced between achievement and challenge and reward you proportionately for exceeding these. We don’t expect you to be a superstar, but if time proves you are, then the sky is the limit for your earnings with us.
That’s what we offer to the right candidates at Richardson & Wrench North Sydney and that’s how we will help you build your real estate selling career with us.
SO, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR IN YOU?
- You have a strong business vision for yourself in Real Estate
- You live within 10km of our office.
- You have a clean drivers licence and a car
- We need to know you have the inherent capacity to SELL and the right attitude to join our team. How can we get an idea of this before you can demonstrate it on the job? The answer is to take our online selling assessment.
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