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Sales Assessments

5 Ways CEOs Can Stop Wasting Money on Sales Hiring Mistakes

Hiring salespeople should feel like an investment with a clear return, not a roll of the dice. The fastest way to protect your budget is to build your sales hiring process around what actually drives top performance – a salesperson’s natural Drive.  Drive is the trio of non-teachable traits that separates consistent producers from everyone else: Need for Achievement, Competitiveness, and Optimism. The right sales hiring tool helps you screen for these traits early, structure better interviews, and reduce costly mis-hires. Below are five practical moves you can make today to reduce turnover, ramp faster, and staff your team with
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Sales Assessments

Sales Skills Assessment Test vs. Personality Questionnaires: Which is Better for Hiring Salespeople?

Hiring managers today face an overwhelming challenge: how to separate the sales candidates who will actually hit their sales targets from those who only look good on paper. Interviews alone rarely cut it—candidates polish their stories, rehearse answers, and sometimes know exactly what you want to hear. That’s why structured assessments have exploded in popularity. But not all assessments are created equal. The two most common approaches are sales skills assessment tests and personality questionnaires. While both can provide useful insights, they measure very different things. Understanding the distinction could be the difference between building a championship sales team—or dealing
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Why Your Sales Training Needs a Personality Test
Sales Training

Why Your Sales Training Needs a Personality Test

Expert Breakdown: You may be wondering why your sales training should include a personality test. This is not merely a trendy addition, it is a strategic move that can reshape how your team functions.  By understanding the unique traits of each salesperson, you can tailor your training to fit their specific strengths and weaknesses.  This personalized approach can enhance communication and improve client interactions, but that is only the beginning.  There are several key benefits that could transform your sales outcomes, and you will not want to miss how they can elevate your team’s performance. The evolving landscape of sales
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Sales Assessments

How to Choose Between Personality Tests and Sales Assessments

Finding good salespeople is one of the biggest challenges that sales VPs face today. Most sales managers find themselves stuck in a never-ending quest to hire quality salespeople that will help grow the company to new levels. And, as you gain more hiring experience, chances are you are learning that the standard resume review/interview routine just is not enough to truly determine the quality of your sales candidates. While a potential hire may look great on paper, and seem promising in the interview, hiring on intuition alone is one of the biggest mistakes you can make in building your sales
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What is a Sales Aptitude Test & How Can It Help Your Sales Team? [Infographic]

Are you tired of hiring salespeople that seem promising during the interview, but sizzle out quicker than you can say “follow-up call?” You are in good company. In fact, according to Hubspot, 40% of all salespeople do not understand customer pain, which plays a large role in the fact that 75% of salespeople miss their quotas. As you can see, this underperforming sales rep problem is something that has plagued the entire sales community, not just your company. However, it is time to make a change and no longer be a part of the above statistics. Continue reading the information below to
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How to Choose the Best Sales Assessment for Your Company

Finding the Best Sales Assessment for Your Team You are looking at your sales stats for the past quarter, and are realizing that things did not go as well as you had hoped. After spending some time reviewing what could possibly have led to these lackluster sales, you have finally come to determine that the basis of your sales problems is your sales team. But you thought these salespeople would be fabulous? They performed so well in their interviews and you felt very strongly that they would give your company the boost you were looking for to take things to
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