Sales Recruiting 2.0 – How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast

‘Do It Yourself’ Sales Recruiting is Sales Recruiting 1.0

A few years ago, it was still possible to draw decent responses to open positions by using company websites, online job ads and career sites. Few companies were actively using the web for hiring.

Today, top sales performers don’t bother checking these places. They will never see your ads. If you use traditional avenues to reach strong candidates, you will instead get a steady stream of résumés from non-qualified applicants to keep you busy.

If you want to find and hire sales people who will consistently exceed your quota, you need to approach the challenge a different way.

Why would we share this?

Successful sales recruiting is all about matching hard-to-find talent with open roles and opportunities. Naturally, some of the skills any recruiter needs are the same across industries, but sales recruiters must be equipped with a unique set of skills to succeed.
That’s because the playing field is littered with obstacles like these:

Fact 1: 55% of people earning their living in sales should be doing something else.
Fact 2: Another 20-25% have what it takes to sell, but should be selling something else.
Conclusion: 75-80% of salespeople are selling something that they are not suited to sell. (No wonder more than 50% of sales reps are not at target.)

If a salesperson is not suited for your team, or what’s being sold, you’re in trouble. No amount of hands on management, extra training, incentivizing or reprimanding is going to make things better.

That’s why hiring the right sales team in the first place is the single most critical action you can take to achieve superior results in your company.

If you hire the right sales people, you can expect:

• 100% of your reps at target
• happier customers
• more sales wins
• lower hiring costs
• better brand reputation
• less wasted management time
• 0% turnover

So all you have to do is go out and hire the right people. Sounds easy. But consider this: all of your competitors are trying to do the same.

The competition for sales talent is ruthless and the demand for proven, reliable sales performers is now at an all-time high. What can you do?

First of all, make an unbreakable commitment to hire only the best. This is without a doubt the single biggest reason some companies boast a high percentage of reps at target while others employ reps who consistently miss quota. The best never settle.

Second, don’t be too proud to accept advice from the pros. Peak Sales Recruiting successfully hires hundreds of high-performing sales professionals every year. Our tools and techniques are not just different, they’re better. Other recruiters simply can’t compete. Our track record proves it.

Our new book Sales Recruiting 2.0 is packed with bite-sized wisdom: quick tips, useful advice, best practices and hard-earned insights. Learn how to supercharge your sales recruiting from experts who are keen to give you a competitive edge. Make the jump to Sales Recruiting 2.0.

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