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How to Separate a Candidate’s Confidence from Drive

Candidates coming into an interview are prepared to show you their best face. Most sales candidates appear confident, exuberant and project a go-getter attitude. Some applicants, however, may interview poorly, but could be hiding a great talent for sales. The problem with heavily basing the hiring decision on interview performance is that you are likely not getting the full picture of the candidate’s ability and Drive. It is nearly impossible for sales managers to definitively know from an interview alone whether or not a candidate will maintain their positive, ambitious demeanor when faced with difficult situations or clients (or whether
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How to Choose the Right Sales Assessment for Your Company

Another sales quarter is nearly over and your sales have not been growing as expected. You have already ruled out any external factors that could have been contributing to the slow growth, so the cause must be coming from within your company. You realize that your current hiring process is letting more than a few bad eggs on to your sales team. All your candidates performed well during the interview process, but their numbers out in the field are rotten. You are ready to take a new approach to screening candidates. Now may be the time to consider adding an
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Sales Assessments

Hunters VS Farmers: Why You Need Both on Your Sales Team

Are you experiencing slow sales growth, or are you witnessing a dramatic decline of new clients? If so, then you may have your sales team stacked with only one type of sales representative. Building the right sales team can be tough. You need salespeople who can hook new clients and recognize potential leads, but you also need sales representatives that know how to transform a new client into a repeat buyer. There are two kinds of successful salespeople: Hunters and Farmers. Both are needed to grow and maintain sales. If you’re only hiring one of these, then you need to
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Sales Assessments

6 Reasons Why So Many Bad Salespeople Get Hired

Every company tries its best to recruit, interview and vet salespeople before hiring them. But way too many bad salespeople still get through, jump on the payroll and do not produce. As Seinfeld might say, “What’s up with that?” It is all too common to hire bad salespeople. Unfortunately, this is more than just a hassle. The time spent training and working with incompetent salespeople costs your company money. Bad salespeople can also tank the productivity of others, and the good members of your team may have to teach these bad salespeople how to perform better. Since many of these bad
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Drive is Not the Same as Obnoxious

Drive is a critical component of a successful salesperson’s personality mix. Drive is what internally pushes her to succeed. Drive is what causes her to love to compete. Drive is an internal element that generates innate optimism in a profession in which rejection is part of the program.And Drive cannot be taught  . . . despite what motivational speakers would like you to believe. Salespeople need to start out with Drive, and then training can really have an impact. Drive is Not the Same as Obnoxious was last modified: October 16th, 2014 by Dr. Chris Croner
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Can a Candidate’s Mood Lower Scores on a Sales Recruitment Assessment?

Hiring managers occasionally wonder whether a sales candidate’s mood can substantially affect his or her scores on a sales assessment test. These questions can arise when a candidate reports recent frustrations at work or other challenging circumstances and scores low on traits such as Need for Achievement or Optimism. The key here is to remember that we are measuring traits rather than states. A state is a more temporary mood or condition (such as temporary anxiety or sadness). A trait is a stable underlying characteristic or quality (such as Need for Achievement).  So, although it can be appealing to attribute
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