Ten Tips for Recruiting Sales People Successfully

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Sales people provide life for all companies.
If everything starts with sales people, it only makes sense to make sure that you are recruiting the best potential sales people.

Tip 1: Recruit from want, not need. Make recruiting an everyday activity. Don’t wait until you need it.

Tip 2: Have a strategy to recruit people all the time. To orchestrate a successful ongoing recruiting program you must first have a game plan. Plan and develop a flow chart of your desired results. Write down the obvious. You must know why you are looking to create a recruiting strategy. “When the why gets strong, the how gets easy.”

Tip 3: Know who is in charge of recruiting and his/her qualifications. People must be educated on creating and orchestrating a strategy that works. Don’t leave the who and how to chance.

Tip 4: Newspaper ads – the Sunday paper is full of ads for sales people. If you plan on using help-wanted ads as part of your recruiting, you must write the ad with the mindset of the good sales person you are looking to recruit. Use two age-old formulas: WIIFM – “What’s in it for me?” and AIDA – “Attention, interest, desire and action” when creating your ads.

Tip 5: Try using several avenues to recruit, such as full-color newspaper inserts, business journal classifieds, a banner ad on your Web site, local colleges, Internet job postings, radio ads, military bases, job fairs and employee referral programs. Never leave the vitality of your company to just one avenue of marketing. You must build a marketing web that has many marketing branches to attract good people.

Tip 6: Have an “ideal employee” profile. Know who you are looking for before you find them. When you’ve developed a precise guideline of what the perfect recruit looks like, you can begin your process with that in mind and then remove the emotions involved in interviewing.

Tip 7: Payment plans satisfy base-level needs of the potential recruit. Pay all recruits during training and guarantee them a living wage during their learning curve. Many potentially good sales people are not given the chance to ever enter the business. Lower the barriers of entry in order to find the best people.

Tip 8: Have at least 50 written interview questions. Don’t you show a sales person how to profile customers? Preparation is key to a good interview. Be ready with sub questions to the interviewee’s answers that allow him or her to elaborate and communicate in detail. A good interview will follow the 80/20-rule and allow the recruit to speak 80 percent of the time.

Tip 9: Test and profile a potential sales person. Anyone who has interviewed people has come across a great interview, horrible employee. A good recruiting strategy must utilize many tools to reduce the emotion and help to make a more logical and quantitative selection. There are many tools today that can be used to gauge the personality, sales aptitude, emotional IQ, intelligence and just about anything else you want to know about a possible future employee.

Tip 10: Don’t hire people based only upon resumes. If you want to hire good sales people, recruit and hire based on talent and attitude and teach them the necessary skills. Recruiting and hiring effectively is a continuous process that is both part science and being creative. Having a consistent plan will make your recruiting a success.

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Mark Tewart is a recognized expert in sales, sales marketing, sales management, personal development and motivation. Mark has an extensive and successful background spanning over three decades ranging from sales to becoming one of the youngest Executive Managers in the country at the age of twenty seven to now being a professional speaker, consultant, founder and President of four successful companies and a best selling author of the book “How To Be A Sales Superstar – Break All the Rules and Succeed While Doing It.” Mark writes editorials for several trade magazines on a monthly basis and has been interviewed and published in media outlets worldwide and also has had a top ranked TV show. Mark is also an in demand keynote speaker and consultant to many businesses and performs over 80 seminars a year. Mark is also a professional member of the National Speakers Association and the Author’s Guild.
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