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Recruiting Top Sales Pros is now HARDER, not easier
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| Guest post by: Niall Devitt |
Article Overview: Businesses need to take a step back and consider all the factors before embarking on a course of action. What might seem obvious at first rarely is. Top 5% sales performers can deliver huge ROI. A little investment in one now could be one of the very best ways of combating the downturn
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Recruiting Top Sales Pros is now HARDER, not easier
Many businesses believe that the recruitment of quality salespeople is now easier than ever. Their logic, more salespeople looking for fewer roles, so filling any available sales roles should be easy.
Many businesses that previously had outsourced the recruitment process now are choosing to handle it internally. It’s seems like an obvious cost saving. With no need to pay sales recruitment specialists, the overall recruitment cost decreases.
I am going to introduce you to a counter-argument. I believe that recruiting top sales people is now not easier than before but actually harder than before. The principles of my argument are also pretty straight forward.
Firstly, it is true; there are more sales professionals in the market looking for sales roles. However in an overall sense, these people do not represent better sales performance, they represent lesser sales performance. In terms of letting people go, businesses need now more than ever to hold on to their top sales performers. So to equate lots of available salespeople with lots of available good salespeople is misguided.
Here’s the second, but none the less important factor as I see it. What about the individual salesperson attitude to the risk of changing roles. If the top salespeople continue to be valued by their current employers, they will lightly view changing now as having much more risk (better the devil, you know)
We have some first hand experience of how difficult it is right now. Some of our own clients have decided to recruit internally. The reports so far have had a common theme, many CVs but with an overall poor quality. In the recent recruitment/head-hunting assignments we have continued to be involved with, a much larger part now involves reassuring sales people about moving during the downturn.
Businesses need to take a step back and consider all the factors before embarking on a course of action. What might seem obvious at first rarely is. Top 5% sales performers can deliver huge ROI. A little investment in one now could be one of the very best ways of combating the downturn.
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About the Author: Niall Devitt RSS for Niall's articles - Visit Niall's website Niall Devitt is a leading Irish sales management consultant, sales trainer and coach with over 10 years experience in recruiting, leading and training high performance sales teams. He is a recognised thought leader in business development, sales and social networking. Niall is the only Irish member of Top Sales Experts International, the finest collection of international sales ever assembled in one location. He is the founder of LinkedIn groups Sales Leadership Ireland and Social Media Ireland. His consulting company Beyond the Boardroom is one part of the International Partnership - a strategic alliance to help Indigenous Irish companies to globalise successfully. He is also the co -founder of Bloggertone - a new online space that allows people in business to access and share useful business information and opinions, constantly updated by the collaborative effort of selected business bloggers. Click here to visit Niall's website Guidelines for Men who Sell to Women 5 Strategies towards Smashing your Sales Targets in 2010 Five Fundamentals to Sales SuperStardom in 2009 Downturn Cando Think Upturn Prospects CRM for a Small Business |
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