7 Sales Recruiting Sources for Software Sales Teams and the One Thing That Decides Whether They Work A few years ago, I shared my best
If I want to bake a chocolate cake, I’ll pull out a recipe book. Then I’ll follow the directions and in about an hour and a half or so I’ll have a cake. If you just follow a recipe, you’ll get predictable results. Right?
Except every time I try to bake a chocolate cake, it never comes out quite the same. Sometimes they’re good , sometimes they’re burnt, other times they just taste like a cardboard sponge. (Not sure I’ve ever eaten a cardboard sponge, but you get the point.)
Why do we hire the people we do? Human psychology and science help explain our hiring decisions. Many of today’s hiring managers have had little to no training when it comes to hiring sales talent.
Therefore, sales managers rely heavily on the interview process and collective opinion to build sales teams. Trial and error has also been an employable strategy for the few companies that can afford it. This strategy calls for hiring as many salespeople as possible, assessing performance, and cutting the bottom 50%. -Read More-
The 6 Hiring Manager Behaviors That Make Sales Recruiters Treat Your Search as Their Top Priority The hiring managers who get the best candidates from
Gallup reports companies increase profitability by 30% when companies pick top employees.
So what happens when you pick the wrong employees?
Mis-hires are expensive, embarrassing, and potential career killers. According to the Corporate Executive Board survey on hiring executives, one out of five hires is a mistake. Yes, you read that correctly. One out of five, or 20%.
3 Tactics to Cut Your Sales Interview Process to 3-4 Rounds and Stop Losing Top Reps If your sales interview process runs more than 5
Hiring can bring out your worst fears. Especially if you’re a new manager or just starting with a new organization. When your first goal is to immediately staff up—your reputation hangs in the balance. Everyone’s watching…quietly rooting for your success or failure.
The single biggest recruiting expense is time.
Never waste your time trying to recruit someone who is unrecruitable. The following guidelines will save you from murdering your own time. Hoping and betting on long-shot candidates will kill hours and weeks of your life. Save yourself from the misery and heartbreak that comes from counteroffer acceptance: Read More
Are you still recruiting salespeople like it’s 2009? One might argue that 2018 is the hottest job market since the year 2000. Consider this:
In 1999 the Labor Department reported the real median household income at $58,665.
As of July 2018 the Labor Department reported the real median household income at $62,175.
Family income has risen by 5% in the first half of 2018 and by 17% since 2012.
Two Overlooked Sales Recruiting Strategies You Can’t Afford to Miss When recruiting top software sales talent, hard work is essential, but so is strategy. There’s
