Tips to Hire Sales Professionals – Attracting, Recruiting, & Retaining Top Sales Professionals
Recently, a client of ours was struggling to decide between two finalists for a critical sales role. To break this tie, they asked each candidate to put together a 90-day …
Chris Carlson
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I recently saw the movie Sully which is based on the successful July 2009 emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549. After multiple bird strikes, the aircraft lost power in …
Chris Carlson
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At the start of each calendar year, I look to CareerBuilder, Manpower and Linkedin’s hiring forecasts to project sales hiring for the year ahead. For 2017, I reviewed those resources …
Chris Carlson
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Over the past decade, buyers have become increasingly sophisticated and better informed. Along with these changes we have seen an exponential increase in marketing noise that has desensitized these buyers …
Chris Carlson
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We started using sales personality tests here at Sales Talent in March of 2002 to help me answer a vexing question. For the first time in my career, I had …
Chris Carlson
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All of us crave more certainty in our lives. On the subject of sales talent, every VP of Sales I’ve ever met would kill to have a more predictable and …
Chris Carlson
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When I first got into sales recruiting 20 years ago, I created a formula for the sales hiring traits I looked for in sales reps. I called my formula the …
Chris Carlson
Before we discuss our list of 4 overrated sales hiring traits, it’s important to talk about the concept of correlation. An obvious example of a trait with a positive correlation …
Chris Carlson
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Why do some sales reps with tremendous track records succeed in a new sales role while other equally accomplished reps fail? Predicting how a human being is going to perform …
Chris Carlson
There are fewer hot topics than the work ethic of Millennials. What’s not up for debate is their importance in the workforce. Today, 1 in 3 American workers are a …
Chris Carlson
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