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Should I Consider Hiring a Recruiter to Find Sales Candidates?

Many people cannot cut it in sales, which might explain why the industry has a high turnover rate. Hiring managers are left frustrated when their repeated attempts to find and keep qualified candidates fall short. Sales managers are left in perpetual training mode without the potential for building a strong sales team. Nobody wins when talent acquisition falls short. So what can you do to change it? Sales recruitment is all about finding the right candidates for the long haul. Companies must look in depth at a person’s personality profile and appropriately gauge a person’s long-term ability to thrive in
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How Bad Salespeople Get Hired

Despite the best intentions of hiring managers, bad salespeople still occasionally slip through the cracks and get hired. Clever actors and “professional interviewees” can talk a very good game. As we say in our seminars, sometimes the best sale you ever see out of a candidate is in the interviewing process. Of course, your sales team’s performance can make or break your company. Therefore, it is essential for sales managers to be aware of situations that allow underperformers to join their team.
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How to Use an Online Sales Test

Hiring managers often wonder about the best way to use an online sales test in their hiring process. Tests, such as The DriveTest™, give us a great deal of valuable information about candidates, alerting us to personality dynamics we might not otherwise have seen in the interview process.  Here are three key points to remember when using a sales test.
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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.
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The Most Important Sales Skill

The most important sales skill, which can be developed through sensitivity and training, is the ability to listen. Sounds easy, but a study conducted in the financial services industry found that in a typical sales call, the salesperson spoke a whopping 80% of the time. Why?  Salespeople get pumped up, nervous and they want to make sure to get all the material covered. Trouble is, 80% is not collaboration . . . it’s domination . . . and customers do not like it. A well-trained listener can also pick up subtle emotional signals and buying is all about emotions. There is
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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.
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