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Use One Question to Identify a Sales Candidate’s Listening Skills

How to Ask the Right Interview Questions to Identify a Sales Candidate’s Listening Skills At SalesDrive, we spend an extensive amount of time discussing how to effectively hire sales reps for your company. While our focus is on helping you find salespeople that possess Drive and ambition, we also understand that there are others skills that matter. At the top of this list is listening. Let’s take a look at how you can identify good listeners and avoid poor ones. Use One Question to Identify a Sales Candidate’s Listening Skills was last modified: December 5th, 2025 by Dr. Chris Croner
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3 Life Lessons Applied to Hiring Salespeople

As in any field of endeavor, we can often raise our game as hiring managers by practicing the rules we have learned in other areas of life. Here are three key life lessons as applied to the challenging, but rewarding, discipline of hiring high-potential salespeople. 3 Life Lessons Applied to Hiring Salespeople was last modified: February 6th, 2014 by Dr. Chris Croner
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2 Sales Hiring Tools Every Sales Manager Needs

Drive manifests itself in many different ways. Some highly Driven people have big personalities and are virtually bursting out of their skin with energy and ideas. But high levels of Drive can also be found in quieter people who are less assuming, who have underneath a burning Need for Achievement and are ferociously Competitive. Hiring new personalities can be incredibly stressful. We all know that many salespeople will try to work a fake swagger – those salespeople that will look for a job but are not looking to actually work hard. How can you weed those all talk, low-Drive candidates
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How Can I Get The Truth About My Candidate?

One of the most important tasks facing interviewers is the need to probe candidate responses effectively. The candidate across the table is wearing a filter designed to make him seem as desirable as possible. Of course, our job is to penetrate that filter. To do so, we need to probe deeper into the candidate’s responses to our initial questions. For example, consider this exchange: INTERVIEWER: “Tell me about a situation you have faced that required strong organizational skills.” CANDIDATE: “Oh, just last week, we had a presentation to a big prospect . . . there was a lot of preparation
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My Candidate is Very Persistent, Does That Mean He Will Be a Good Salesperson?

The short answer: Maybe. Hiring managers occasionally encounter sales candidates who are especially persistent. The candidates might call or email recruiters frequently to get an update on their status. Of course, persistence is a very important trait for success in sales. So, it can be tempting to conclude that a persistent candidate will be high in Drive, tirelessly tracking down new leads. My Candidate is Very Persistent, Does That Mean He Will Be a Good Salesperson? was last modified: October 14th, 2025 by Dr. Chris Croner
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Drive: The Most Important Innate Characteristic in Salespeople, But, Easy to Fake in a Job Interview

Tips for Getting to the Truth in Interviews Drive is composed of three non-teachable—after adulthood—characteristics: Need for Achievement, Competitiveness and Optimism. These traits, when combined, allow a salesperson to sustain high performance over time in an environment of extreme competition and rejection . . . things that eventually grind down non-Driven salespeople.  Drive: The Most Important Innate Characteristic in Salespeople, But, Easy to Fake in a Job Interview was last modified: November 21st, 2013 by Dr. Chris Croner
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