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Tips to Hire Sales Professionals – Attracting, Recruiting, & Retaining Top Sales Professionals

What Percentage of Sales Reps Hit Quota?

This question doesn’t get asked often enough and has major implications. It impacts realistic earnings projections for salespeople, what companies should expect from their new hires’ sales performance, and ultimately, …

2022 Sales Hiring Forecast

At the beginning of each year, we compile our sales hiring forecast by looking at the overall hiring forecasts for the year made by Manpower, Glassdoor, Indeed, Monster, and the …

2021 Sales Hiring Forecast

**The 2022 Sales Hiring Forecast has been released – check it out now!** Last year we concluded our 2020 Sales Hiring Forecast with the following statement. “Short term, the only thing that …

4 Zoom Sales Interview Tips

One of the ways the COVID crisis will forever change our society is how we meet. Prior to the crisis, zoom sales interviews were much less common than phone or …

2020 Sales Hiring Forecast

**The 2022 Sales Hiring Forecast has been released – check it out now!** It’s time for the 6th installment of our annual sales hiring forecast. As there isn’t a hiring …

Sales Panel Interviews

Sales Panel Interviews – Effective Tool or Popularity Contest? Most companies utilize sales panel interviews as part of their interview process. Usually, it’s the final step of the interview process. …

How to Hire Your First Sales Leader

We have seen an uptick in small, growing companies asking us to find them a sales leader after their first sales leader failed. Diagnosing what went wrong revealed a common …

2019 Sales Hiring Forecast

At the start of every year, we compile hiring projections for the upcoming year. Because there aren’t specific hiring forecasts for sales, we build our own sales hiring forecast based …

5 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Sales Recruiting Firm

1. How does your firm find talent? Most recruiters are network based meaning they have a network of sales professionals that they have developed a relationship with. Usually, their network …