We nearly didn’t remember one of the most important sales management training process in hiring
My mistake. I nearly did not include it because it was left out of my previous post.
But when you don’t include it in your sales management training interviewing method, you can really keep yourself open to creating some fatal hiring decisions.
And So I don’t like that to happen so here it is.
Get right to the “whys”
Get them talking, but make them focus on the “whys” right behind the decisions they have made in their lives. The answers to those questions will provide you with insights into who they really are. Everyone is the sum of each of the decisions they’ve made with their lives. Ask them with regards to those decisions.
In asking them “why did they do what they did?” questions, you are cutting to the core of their nature. Getting a completely new job is a big event in someone’s life, those decisions/thought processes are “windows to their real personality”.
Simplyask them in regards to the decisions they made and also the “whys” in regards to every decision.
When you got married wasn’t it one of the greatest decisions you ever made in your own life?
And the spouse you decided to get married to tells a lot about who you really are as a person.
Like a “marriage” to a new company tells tons regarding who that individual is.
Ask the interviewee a question like: “Why did you leave Paychex to go work at AT&T? What were you planning to achieve?”
Or after they left Paulie’s Walnuts, Inc. to go to Phil’s Cashew Company, one of the best question is:
“What was lacking out of your current situation at Paulie’s Walnuts Inc.?”
Once you learn the “whys” behind this question, you get a window into their soul. Then probe into each decision. Be specific. Have them give you examples.
The more exact the examples they provide, the better it is for you.
Plus the better your chances of getting a killer sales hire.
In our upcoming sales management training step in the evaluating process, we get to the question and answer section. This is not the right time to snooze it’s time for you to wake up and be sure you use all this crucial part of the hiring process to have the best salesperson possible.
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