I understand that a lot of companies out there don't feel that they need to use outside recruiters, even if they specialize in sales and marketing or other types of outside support resources. If your company is planning on going it alone with the regard to hiring new sales people, consider using an outside sales profiling tool such as the one that we use at Objective Management. The express screen tool is a very helpful tool that will help you to determine whether or not a particular candidate can and will sell for your company and whether or not their selling style and experience is aligned with the profile of what it is that you are looking for in a top sales person. This tool, while not providing the only information that you need for the hiring process, will give you yet another set of inputs and data which will make it extremely helpful for you as you make your hiring decision.
All of us have blind spots when it comes to hiring sales people. Often times, we bond with the candidates and we tend to hire people that we like or have the same style as we do, yet a lot of miss-hires come from this exact flaw. This is why it is so important to get an objective, outside read as to whether or not a candidate is really suitable for your company's need before you make an offer.
An online sales profiling tool should be used as a compliment as opposed to a substitute for other parts of your interviewing process. Those interviewing processes should include behavioral interviewing, team interviewing, and sales achievement tracking to name a few, but by using this outside tool, it will greatly reduce your risk of a miss-hire when it comes to hiring sales people. I suggest that if you're not using an outside tool such as this as a part and partial of your sales hiring process, you're missing an opportunity to adopt a widely recognized best practice when it comes to hiring sales people. So, even when you don't want to use a recruiter, consider getting outside support and looking at the tools that are available on the internet today.
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