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What employers look for in hiring salespeople

By Tom Searcy, CBS MoneyWatch (MoneyWatch) Salespeople are hired to be fired. So when it comes time to find that next sales job, just what is the person doing the hiring looking for in a new salesperson?   Research suggests there are three key factors prospective employers look at to

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7 Secrets of Recruiting the BEST Salespeople

By Steve Suggs, Recruiting Expert and author of Can They Sell When Jeffery Gittomer, endorsed my book, Can They Sell, he said, “To hire or not to hire? That is the question.”  Jeffery is a master at getting salespeople to understand this foundational principal of success: “Salespeople’s mastery of sales

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7 Hiring Mistakes and How Not to Make Them

BY S. ANTHONY IANNARINO I am not throwing the first stone here (or the last). I have personally been guilty of half of these. But, alas, it is how one learns. Hiring Out of Desperation One of the fastest ways to build an underperforming sales force and burden yourself with

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KEEP IT SIMPLE WHEN IT COMES TO SALES COMPENSATION

By Matt Smith In an earlier blog post that cited some key data from a recent CSO Insights report on best practices in tracking sales metrics, we noted that companies that measure 4-7 key sales metrics had higher sales performance than companies that tracked 3 or fewer key sales metrics. My first

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Will This Sales Candidate Really Fail If We Hire Him?

Dave Kurlan is a top-rated speaker, best-selling author, sales thought leader and highly regarded sales development expert. This week I called the type of candidate that traditional HR professional love – his resume was formatted, there were no typos, his background was exactly what my client craved – but the

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Why You Must Kick the Sourcing Habit

by Lou Adler As many of you know — I announced it at the ERE Expo in San Diego — I’ve decided to bring recruiting back to recruiting. This is my new old mission. Somehow this has been lost in the past few years when overall candidate supply exceeded demand.

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