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The Best Questions To Hire Superstar Sales Reps
Sales Interviewing & Hiring

Revealing Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Best Reps

As a Sales Manager or hiring manager, it is your duty to find new sales reps who are promising and destined to bring success to your company, beyond just sales skills. And if you’re like most hiring managers, you may have spent hours weeding through resumes, cover letters, references, etc. for a number of sales candidates. You have pared your list down to a handful of superstar candidates and now comes the time to prepare for the interview. With such fabulous candidates on your docket, it can feel a bit overwhelming to ensure that the interviews go without a hitch,
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

How to Use Extreme Questions in a Sales Interview

Interviewing sales candidates can be particularly challenging. Often, sales candidates can be hard to read in an interview since many are skilled at presenting themselves in a favorable light. A powerful technique for quickly moving past a candidate’s defenses is to use “extreme” questions. When asking the right type of extreme questions in a sales interview, you are much more likely to identify a candidate’s true potential. This technique’s power comes from its ability to get right at the heart of the matter, allowing you to learn the candidate’s tendencies. “Extreme” interview questions gain their namesake for a reason and
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Sales Interviewing & Hiring

Interview Questions to Find Top Performing Salespeople [Video]

The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. When interviewing a sales candidate it is important to get past his or her guarded responses by digging deeper and probing for the truth. There are some specific behavioral interview questions that you can use to uncover the information you need to determine if the candidate is a good fit for your company. In this 5-minute video interview excerpt, with David Domos of WhyBuyFromYou.com, Dr. Chris Croner highlights which sales interview questions to ask to determine if your candidate has Drive, the number one predictor of sales success. Drive is made
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How to Separate a Candidate’s Confidence from Drive

Candidates coming into an interview are prepared to show you their best face. Most sales candidates appear confident, exuberant and project a go-getter attitude. Some applicants, however, may interview poorly, but could be hiding a great talent for sales. The problem with heavily basing the hiring decision on interview performance is that you are likely not getting the full picture of the candidate’s ability and Drive. It is nearly impossible for sales managers to definitively know from an interview alone whether or not a candidate will maintain their positive, ambitious demeanor when faced with difficult situations or clients (or whether
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6 Questions You Want Interviewees to Ask

During the hiring process, the communication between a prospective employee and a hiring company can make or break the hiring decision. Candidates need to be able to answer your questions in a non-scripted and persuasive way, while engaging in meaningful and direct dialogue with interviewers. When an interviewee starts to ask in-depth questions during an interview, companies can take that as a sign of a more serious candidate that they may want to move forward with. 6 Questions You Want Interviewees to Ask was last modified: April 28th, 2015 by Dr. Chris Croner
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