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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

AI in Sales: What AI Can’t Fix in Sales Hiring

The rapid adoption of AI in sales has transformed how teams prospect, personalize, and manage data. But while AI can write outreach emails, suggest next steps, and automate follow-ups, it can’t fix a fundamental problem: hiring the wrong salesperson. AI in sales hiring doesn’t solve poor judgment, it scales it. When the wrong person gets the job, AI only multiplies the failure. Tools don’t close deals, people with Drive and resilience do. The Limits of AI in Sales Recruitment AI is excellent at pattern recognition. It can scan resumes, analyze speech, and compare performance metrics. But AI doesn’t truly understand
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Sales Assessments

How to Choose the Best Sales Assessment Partner Program for Your Consulting Business

If you’re a sales consultant, fractional sales leader, or sales recruiter, you already know how important it is to bring measurable value to your clients. Whether you’re helping companies build high-performing sales teams or advising on hiring strategies, one thing is certain: your reputation hinges on results. That’s why more consultants are adding sales assessments, through strategic partnerships, to their toolkit—not just to improve client outcomes, but to create recurring revenue and differentiate their services. With companies spending $39.3 billion annually on outside consultants and the average consultant bringing in over $175,000 a year, the opportunity is massive. But not
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

How to Use Extreme Questions in a Sales Interview

Interviewing sales candidates can be particularly challenging. Often, sales candidates can be hard to read in an interview since many are skilled at presenting themselves in a favorable light. A powerful technique for quickly moving past a candidate’s defenses is to use “extreme” questions. When asking the right type of extreme questions in a sales interview, you are much more likely to identify a candidate’s true potential. This technique’s power comes from its ability to get right at the heart of the matter, allowing you to learn the candidate’s tendencies. “Extreme” interview questions gain their namesake for a reason and
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Sales Assessments

Optimism – A Critical Piece of the Sales Aptitude Puzzle & Why Your Sales Reps Need It

Sales is unlike any other job in business, because rejection is ubiquitous. Accountants do not get rejected each day, even if we do not like their numbers. Writers do not get rejected by their words. And, for the most part, though people who work in the same office day in and day out may argue, they are not exposed to the constant stream of invalidation that salespeople experience as a natural part of their jobs. Rejection is naturally difficult to handle. In the most basic sense, it is the feedback that lets you know that you have done something wrong
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team

As a sales manager, you want to build a strong sales team to ensure your organization continues to grow and succeed. Unfortunately, many managers continue to make the same hiring and team building mistakes—mistakes that could be easily avoided. With that in mind, let us start by going over a few common mistakes managers make when building a sales team. Then, we will look at how you can avoid making those costly mistakes. 4 Mistakes Managers Make When Building a Sales Team 1.   Hiring With Your Intuition Interviewing several different sales candidates can be a tedious and time-consuming process. One
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Sales Strategies

Is Your Sales Team Equipped With the Right Knowledge?

Did you know that 40% of salespeople cannot understand a customer’s pain? When a customer comes with a problem, sales reps panic and end up giving the first option that comes to their mind, which can prove to be a disaster if their solution addresses a problem which the customer did not even have. There are many factors that salespeople do not control but the failure or success of a sales rep is mostly dependent on the level of preparedness and constant adaptation to the dynamic sales environment. Being the Founder/Head of Sales of the organization, one question you need
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