Seven years ago, I heard my daughter’s good friend planned to ride her bike from Vermont to Seattle. For the sake of this story, we’ll call her ‘She’. My first reaction was: Is She crazy? Vermont to Seattle, really? I was a bit late to the game when I found this out, but I knew She didn’t have much support. Fresh out of college and very independent with little support doesn’t typically have the resources to make the HUGE journey.
I sponsored She with some logo athletic wear, a sign for her bike to look official, and several care packages along the way. Lots of texts were exchanged for changing shipping addresses dependent on She’s schedule. I guess it depended on how many hills She had to climb, the weather, the average miles per day, and many other things you might imagine.
It’s seven years later, and She is doing wonderful. She got her dream job that didn’t pay enough to make ends meet. A hard lesson for all of us at some point. She went back to school while she worked. Now She has her absolute dream job.
What one quality does this story show that you’d like to know about all your future sales hires?
Did you think of any of these?
Commitment
Desire
Motivation
Integrity – Doing what you say you will do.
Grit
Skills
If not, then re-think what you want to know about sales hires before you hire them. Based on our experience with helping thousands of companies hire more thousands of Sales, Sales Management, and VP of Sales, what our clients want to know before they hire is: What will happen 90-120 days after we hire them? While no one has a crystal ball, we at SDE have a 98% success rate when our clients follow our advice on how to:
Identify – Attract – Screen – Interview – Hire – Onboard and Keep the right sales staff.
Look at the picture – does that look like a champion on what. Then tell me if you want your next sales hire to be a sales champion.
And let’s not forget a big thank you to She. A great example of a champion!
GEAUX SHE
