- About 70% of all salespeople working today don’t have the right “Sales Skills” or they are selling in the wrong industry
- When looking to hire salespeople, look for two key characteristics: high ego drive and high empathy
- Rather than hiring industry experience, look for “the athlete and teach them the sport”
- Approximately 80% of all sales are won by only 20% of the sales force (The Pareto Principle)
- When hiring a new salesperson, use a sales assessment tool to measure their true sales ability
- Most hiring managers place too much emphasis on a person’s resume and experience rather than on a person’s true passion to sell
- One of the keys to making good sales hiring decisions is realizing the characteristics of a new employee: things that are easy to change…those that are harder but doable…those that are very difficult to change
- Most salespeople change jobs not because of money, but because of a lack of appreciation and not enough “psychic income” from their employer
