There are several challenges that companies of any size have to overcome to recruit high quality sales professionals. This is true for entry-level sales recruiting. It becomes more challenging when moving into sales managers and senior sales roles.
The key is to have the ability to generate sales recruiting services that work for your company. These are services and processes that attract the most qualified, professional, and proven sales professionals. However, it is not just a top resume that makes an applicant a good candidate. Often HR departments assume that hiring a sales professional is the same as hiring any other position in the company, and this simply could not be further from the truth.
The Ability to Create a Match
A key factor in sales recruiting is the ability to create a match between the applicant and the existing sales department and team. This ability to bring a new person into an existing team is one of our specialties. We take the time to understand your values and culture in the business, ensuring alignment with the candidate and the workplace.
Recognizing the Critical Traits of Sales Professionals
Alignment with the company and sales culture is not the only challenge. It is essential to be able to assess the candidate’s communication skills, understanding of the sales process, ability to connect with customers, and the ability of the candidate to begin successfully working within your sales team immediately.
The Sales Coaching Institute’s sales recruitment experts are focused on ensuring that the candidate you hire will ultimately drive the business success of your company. They have developed a best practices process for measuring the key traits of a successful sales hire and bring the experience they have to each and every executive sales recruiting search. Get in touch with them.
