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The 10 Step Process for Hiring Top Sales Reps
Recruiting top-performing sales reps is not easy to do, especially if you don’t have a proven process for hiring sales reps. Many companies will dive right into recruiting without a plan and quickly encounter problems. For example, without a dedicated HR team, hiring is passed off onto other employees who
How To Create a Successful Job Description
Creating a job description involves more than just Googling a generic sales rep position and copying the job requirements to your own job posting. A job description should be carefully crafted to portray the type of person that will thrive in your company environment and include the criteria that interviewers
How Do I Know When to Replace a Sales Rep?
No sales rep is perfect. It’s expected for them to have an occasional off week, or even a month where they don’t hit their numbers. But how do you know when these mistakes aren’t just the consequence of a rough patch and actually warrant serious consequences? There are four key
7 Questions to Ask When Interviewing Sales Reps
Interviews are an opportunity to see which sales candidate is the best fit for your company and for the position. Asking candidates specific questions about their skills, job experience, and career ambition will help you match a candidate’s qualifications with your current opportunity. Consider asking these seven fundamental questions in
Sales Interview Best Practices for Employers
Many companies look at the interview as the way to assess whether or not a candidate is a good fit for the business. While true, it is hardly the full picture. Many candidates today, especially top talent, have options of where to take their services. The interview is equally important
How Long Should It Take To Hire a Top Performer In Sales? [Video]
By Kathleen Steffey (CEO and Founder of Naviga Recruiting & Executive Search) Hiring a new sales rep can take a long time if you don’t have a dedicated resource searching for top talent. Learn how many days it takes on average to hire a sales rep when using a recruiting