Market Your Company and Positions to Attract Top Talent
This post is Part 2 in a Salesjournal Series on “Making Your Business Attractive to Top Talent.” Part 1 asked, “Is Your Business Attractive to Top Talent?“ Attracting top talent is a struggle for almost every company. An essential element to combating this problem is being able to market your company and your positions effectively. […]
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 predict the success of an […]
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 human resources nightmares is to […]
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 reaction when I read these […]
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 assessment wasn’t so impressed with […]
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. Hiring top talent is not […]