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Anyone who feels unaffected by the Covid Crisis this year has missed the point. This was the year for us all to look inside ourselves, figure out what we stand for, and work at discarding the rest.
For Advanced Hiring it’s been a good year. Revenues were solid, but most of all we’ve been able to help you, our valued clients, find super talent.
Clients who’ve jumped into the fray have said they got talent they had never been able to find before.
One of our clients and good friends, Cameron Robinson, described a hire we found as “like dating way out of my league.” She of course was being overly modest, as she and her company is an example of people and a company that cares, but you get the point.
The amount of high-quality sales talent available is amazing. You owe it to yourself to upgrade the quality of your sales team now.
Years ago I was a very active stock trader. I specialized in down markets. But one rule I learned the hard way is the economy is more optimistic than pessimistic. After a downturn things always come back. I expect we’ll see a revitalization of small and medium sized businesses soon.
If you need help getting starting using the System, please reach out. We’re here to help.
Best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year from all of us here at Advanced Hiring System to all of you!
Most companies have one thing in common when they hire salespeople.
The Number One tool they use to screen sales applicants is…
The résumé or LinkedIn profile
Have you been burned enough times yet by the Perfect Résumé or LinkedIn profile?
You’ve probably realized that most sales applicants are a COMPLETE waste of time.
They all have the same problem. They cannot sell. No matter what their LinkedIn profle says.
A few years ago, the CEO of Yahoo! was forced to resign… After it was discovered that his résumé was full of… A bunch of jobs he never did… And a bunch of schooling he never had.
THE CEO!!!
You've almost certainly seen stories about famous résumé cheats.
It’s pretty standard for job-seekers to fake… Their education, their experience, their skills, and their references.
So choosing who you interview based on their résumé means…You are probably using a couple pages of BS as your first step in hiring… the one person who is MOST responsible for creating your company income.
Not long ago, we were called in to help a large publicly traded religious broadcaster. This stations had good listener ratings. Very popular stations. But their sales were weak.
We analyzed their sales hiring practices. They hired salespeople 100% based on résumés, LinkedIn profiles and interviews. They ONLY interviewed and hired salespeople… whose résumé showed they were fired up with the station's religious mission.
But we know that the BEST salespeople are MOST motivated… By MONEY and/or POWER.
Religious views are not a significant factor in sales success.
Sales is about making sales. It's hard work. If your applicant is not motivated by the right things for sales… Then when the hard part comes (and it will)…
… They fade and stop doing the hard work. They have to deal with rejection time after time after time. To keep making calls, they have to REALLY want that money!
When their highest values don't match those of proven top sales performers… That is a BIG problem for you.
Solution?
Start using a values-based assessment to screen applicants. Stop wasting your time on applicants with beautiful résumés…Who are not money-motivated and who cannot sell.
If you're not getting the right kinds of salespeople on your team we've created a quick survey that will help you get it right.
The quiz will take you less than a minute to complete. It will help you laser in on what's keeping you from hiring the best salespeople.
Its our gift to sales managers who want a simple easy formula for hiring quality salespeople. Just click the link and you'll be taken to the short survey.
It'll give you the results instantly. Go ahead click the link and complete the survey now.
Let’s face it, when it come to hire salespeople is like crawling around in the dark for most managers. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
I was lucky when I first started at 25 as a Sales Manager to hire salespeople. My boss, Mike, told me that training was secondary to sales hiring. He taught me that if you hire a lousy salesperson, all the training in the world will not make him great. He’ll just be a well-trained lousy salesperson.
He also taught me that if you want to get great when you hire salespeople, you have to keep records. For me that morphed in keeping a journal — well actually two journals. I’ll talk about the second journal in a minute.
But first in the management journal it is important to track which candidates you get with each ad. In this way, you know which ad pulled winners. (And which one pulled mostly duds.)
You also then track how your salespeople do at regular benchmarks. My benchmarks are 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years. At those dates I jot down the level of productivity of the salesperson.
In the Advanced Hiring System, we have incorporated this journal into the sales hiring system. (We’re looking out for your career here.) Plus we want to make it easier foir you to see how well you’re doing with the system.
If you follow this very simple system, you’ll improve every time you make a sales hire.
The second journal, well, that is a personal journal. Life is tough and having a record of your thoughts is invaluable. Being able to look back at notes I made 40 years ago are the most powerful self-improvement tool.
If you’d like to know more about tracking candidates click the button below. We’ve put together a short survey that will help you improve your sales hiring strategy.
