Download or read book The Perfect Hire A Tactical Guide to Hiring Developing and Retaining Top Sales Talent written by Katherine Graham-Leviss and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2011-07-20 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: STOP THE REVOLVING DOOR How many sales candidates have you hired for their technical skills only to fire for their bad attitude? How many experienced sales hires have you had to let go for poor on-the-job performance? Whether you’ve experienced such scenarios or you hope to avoid them, the takeaway is simple—the perfect hire requires more than technical skills and experience. Sales strategist Kathi Graham-Leviss invites you to stop the revolving door of sales hires and arms you with the critical steps to choosing the perfect hire—every time. Utilizing proven best practices—revealed from the latest research in sales performance drivers—learn how to assess soft skills, problem solving abilities, and behavioral attributes, in addition to technical know-how, to select candidates who are well matched for the job, not just well qualified. Uncover the secrets to creating a successful hiring methodology that enables you to: Attract quality candidates Screen for high performers Predict on-the-job success Select the perfect hire Increase productivity Reduce turnover Increase Profits Be it time, money, opportunities lost—the cost of finding and hiring a new sales employee is significant. Stop spending on poor prospects and start profiting with the perfect hire! Praise for The Perfect Hire "The Perfect Hire...is there such a thing? Kathi Graham-Leviss's book has made me a believer! This step-by-step path to success should be required reading for a world class sales organization or those desiring to attain such a competitive distinction." Loretta Penn, President, Spherion Staffing “The Perfect Hire is a comprehensive guide detailing how to actively hire and cultivate the most effective sales force by using meaningful assessments that capture employees’ competency, critical thinking and core values. The book employs Graham-Leviss’ 25-years of experience and research findings to ensure employers are able capable of developing the best sales talent as possible.” Troy Vincent, VP Player Engagement – National Football League "Poor hiring and development practices have a devastating impact on a company's bottom line as valuable customer data is lost and relationships damaged. Kathi Graham-Leviss's book can help any business dramatically improve their hiring and development process and lead to a more profitable future". EVP, Morris Publishing "Finally, a sales handbook that brings together the art and science of recruiting top sales talent. Belongs on the bookshelf of every sales VP!" Rebecca Callahan, President, SourceRight Solutions “As a how-to guide, this book contains everything you may need to know. Brimming with straightforward strategies anyone can use to overcome the pitfalls of hiring, developing and retaining top sales talent.” Anne Szostak, President/CEO, Szostak Partners LLC "A brilliant book that will help ALL levels of management maximize the potential of their organizations most powerful resource – their people. This book is built around the unique perspective that hiring top talent is the number one priority, and often times most frequently lost opportunity, of every company, no matter their size. A truly important book for ALL sales leaders.” C. Preston Bowen, Senior Vice President, Overhead Door Corporation

Download or read book Hiring Sales Winners The Ultimate Guide to Hiring TOP Performing Sales Talent written by Gerard Assey and published by Collection Skills. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Hiring Sales Winners: The Ultimate Guide to Hiring Top Performing Sales Talent' is a comprehensive and practical resource designed to transform your sales hiring process and enable you to attract, assess, and hire exceptional sales professionals. This guide takes you through every step of the hiring journey, from understanding the impact of top performing sales talent to creating effective job descriptions, sourcing candidates, conducting interviews, making compelling offers, and on-boarding and training new hires. You'll learn how to evaluate skills, assess motivation, address potential red flags, and negotiate competitive compensation packages. The book also delves into strategies for retaining top talent, managing performance, and adapting to future trends in sales recruitment. With expert insights, real-life examples, and actionable tips, 'Hiring Sales Winners' equips you with the knowledge and tools to build a winning sales team and drive organizational success.

Download or read book Mastering the Art of Recruiting written by Michael Travis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priceless resource for seasoned as well as first-time executives, this is the playbook that explains how to recruit better people and build stronger, more effective teams. Executives are highly motivated to get better at hiring because they know the ability to consistently identify and recruit the right people is critical to the success of their businesses—and their personal advancement. But hiring people isn't taught in business schools or executive development programs. This book provides the sorely needed and essential practical instruction that executives are not receiving elsewhere, supplying a step-by-step guide for those who want to excel at attracting and identifying talent. Covering everything from the basics of defining a job to the intricacies of managing internal politics, this no-nonsense book provides a clear roadmap through the often-daunting and pitfall-laden recruiting process. In addition to explaining how to get it right, the book provides the information and guidance readers need to identify and fix the most common problems that doom hiring efforts to failure. Debunking the idea that "some people are just great recruiters and some aren't," the author clearly identifies the steps that anyone can take in order to master the art—and science—of recruiting.

Download or read book Your Sales Management Guru s Guide to Recruiting High Performance Sales Teams written by Ken Thoreson and published by Sales Gravy Press. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hire the Best, Not Just the Best Available What's the number challenge for sales leaders and sales organizations? Recruiting and hiring top talent. While most sales organizations focus on creating a sales process to increase sales performance, they fail to develop an effective recruiting and interviewing process that attracts top talent. Then they wonder why their sales training and sales process didn't work! Finally there is a definitive resource designed to help individual sales leaders and entire organizations attract, recruit and hire high-performing salespeople. In Sales Management Guru's Guide to Recruiting High-Performance Sales Teams you'll get detailed interview scorecards, interviewing questions, and sample job descriptions. Plus a bonus section dedicated to the new hire on-boarding process. You'll also learn . . . How to develop your ideal salesperson profile How to create a sales candidate funnel Where to find top sales talent Why many sales managers get fired in less than 18 months How an Interview Scorecard screens out the "empty suit's" How to take emotion out of the interview process Why and how to use a sales case study to evaluate your candidates How to use sales assessments and why they are an important factor in selection How to properly conduct a telephone interview and use scoring list to assess talent How to use social media to evaluate sales candidates And much more . . . Praise for Your Sales Management Guru's Guide "If you're a crazy-busy sales manager and constantly worried about reaching your revenue goals, follow Ken Thoreson's savvy advice to create a high-performance sales organization." - Jill Konrath, Author of SNAP Selling and Selling to Big Companies "Ken Thoreson has hit it out of the park with his Your Sales Management Guru's Guide series. If you are serious about taking your sales team to the next level read these books!" - Jeb Blount, Author of People Buy You and Power Principles About The Author Ken Thoreson is a sales management thought leader who has a passion for developing and implementing creative sales management strategies designed to build high-performance sales teams. As president of Acumen Management Group he helps clients ranging from early stage to Fortune 500 develop winning sales management strategies.

Download or read book How to Source Qualify and Hire Elite Sales Talent written by Jamie Crosbie and published by . This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiring, developing, and retaining elite sales talent for your firm doesn't have to be the seemingly insurmountable challenge that it might appear to be. Talent acquisition and development industry mavericks, Jamie Crosbie and Mike Pierce, offer a tried, tested and proven solution to improve your organization's sales performance. How To Source, Qualify, & Hire Elite Sales Talent is a must-read for every business in every industry.

Download or read book Hire With Your Head written by Lou Adler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the secrets of one of the world’s leading talent acquisition experts In the newly revised Fourth Edition of Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams, influential recruiting and hiring expert Lou Adler delivers a practical guide to consistently identifying and hiring the best people and scaling that process throughout your company. This book will help you address your hiring and recruitment issues, not just by making you more efficient, but also by reforming your entire process to align with how top talent actually look for new jobs, compare offers, and select opportunities. You'll discover: Discover what it takes to ensure more Win-Win Hiring outcomes by hiring for the anniversary date rather than the start date How to use a "High Tech, High Touch" approach to raise the talent bar Expand the talent pool to include more outstanding, high potential and diverse talent by defining work as a series of key performance objectives Perfect for hiring managers, recruiters, and HR and business leaders, Hire with Your Head is a must-read resource for anyone seeking to improve their ability to find, attract, and retain the top talent the world has to offer.

Download or read book How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer 2nd edition The Qualities That Make Salespeople Great written by Herb Greenberg and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sales management classic—updated for today’s competitive business environment Advanced digital technologies, the breakdown of traditional business barriers, and increased customer empowerment have transformed the sales profession. The future now belongs to salespeople who deeply understand, embrace, and take advantage of these unprecedented changes to enhance their relationships with their customers. What does this mean for you? You absolutely need these people on your team to succeed. And this fully updated edition of How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer will show you how to find them, attract them, and retain them. It’s the key to maintaining the competitive edge now and in the future. Written by the CEO and president of Caliper, one of the world’s leading management consultancies, How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer, Second Edition, delivers the proven game plan their company has used to power growth for SAP, Avis Budget Group, and thousands of other clients. Updated and revised for the age of the digitally connected customer and expanded to cover global and remote leadership topics, this one-of-a-kind guide gives you essential strategies to: Recruit and evaluate candidates via social media and other platforms Spot the qualities of top performers—and make sure the entire sales team has them Set realistic coaching goals Understand the psychology of “A” players, so you can give these stars what they need to succeed When you know how to hire, onboard, coach, motivate, and lead a powerful sales team, nothing can stop you. How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer is the essential playbook for long-term sales success. Praise for How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer: “We wouldn’t hire a salesperson without Caliper’s advice. If you’re concerned about recruiting the right person and driving increased profitable sales, you’ve got to read this book!” —Thomas M. Gart land, President, North America, Avis Budget Group, Inc. “This book has changed my life and, more importantly, it has changed the lives of many of my customers.” —Peter Smith, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Hearts On Fire “Caliper can dramatically improve your ability to hire and develop top performers. If you want to increase sales, read this book before your competition gets a hold of this gem.” —Gerhard Gschwandtner, Founder and Publisher, Selling Power “There is no better book on hiring and developing top performing salespeople.” ,b>—Ron Rubin, Minister of Tea (Owner), The Republic of Tea “This book should be on the desk of anyone interested in creating the best sales organization possible.” —Sean Sweeney, President, Chief Operating Officer, Philadelphia Insurance Companies “A must read. This book can save you a lot of wasted time and energy, while increasing your success rate dramatically.” —Alyson Brandt, Executive Vice President, General Manager Americas, The Forum Corporation To discover your defining qualities, take Caliper’s free, in-depth personality profile and receive a developmental guide pinpointing the qualities that distinguish you, along with suggestions for developing your potential.

Download or read book Talent Chooses You written by James Ellis and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your business to grow, you need to be able to rely on your ability to hire talent reliably and consistently. No talent pipeline? No growth, and no business. But your recruiting team is drowning (I asked them). They need help. Now, if you ask recruiters, they will ask for headcount. Or more technology. But more bodies and more tools won't solve the issue (though it will eat up your budget). What you need a is a better strategy. And that strategy is called employer branding.Employer branding is about understanding, distilling and communicating what your company is all about in order to attract all the talent you need. That will differentiate your company as a place where people will want to work, rather than a place they land because they didn't know better.If you've heard about employer branding in business magazines, it might seem like something only "big companies" can do. Something that requires a dedicated team, expensive platforms, or a bunch of consultants. That isn't true. If you understand where your brand comes from, and how to apply it, any company (especially yours) can hire better with it.And this book will teach you how to do all of that, and then some.In this book, you'll learn what employer branding really is, how to make a compelling argument internally to leadership that creates commitment, how to work with other teams and be creative in finding solutions. As a special bonus, we are including a handbook on how to work with recruiting teams. This hands-on workbook is chock full of examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions and even emails you can copy and paste to make things happen immediately.

Download or read book Who written by Geoff Smart and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this instant New York Times Bestseller, Geoff Smart and Randy Street provide a simple, practical, and effective solution to what The Economist calls “the single biggest problem in business today”: unsuccessful hiring. The average hiring mistake costs a company $1.5 million or more a year and countless wasted hours. This statistic becomes even more startling when you consider that the typical hiring success rate of managers is only 50 percent. The silver lining is that “who” problems are easily preventable. Based on more than 1,300 hours of interviews with more than 20 billionaires and 300 CEOs, Who presents Smart and Street’s A Method for Hiring. Refined through the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken, the A Method stresses fundamental elements that anyone can implement–and it has a 90 percent success rate. Whether you’re a member of a board of directors looking for a new CEO, the owner of a small business searching for the right people to make your company grow, or a parent in need of a new babysitter, it’s all about Who. Inside you’ll learn how to • avoid common “voodoo hiring” methods • define the outcomes you seek • generate a flow of A Players to your team–by implementing the #1 tactic used by successful businesspeople • ask the right interview questions to dramatically improve your ability to quickly distinguish an A Player from a B or C candidate • attract the person you want to hire, by emphasizing the points the candidate cares about most In business, you are who you hire. In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street offer simple, easy-to-follow steps that will put the right people in place for optimal success.

Download or read book Hire Right Higher Profits written by Lee B. Salz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unless your product sells itself, your sales force determines your ultimate success. Lee Salz is spot on in his assessment of the importance of viewing salespeople as a major investment in your business." - Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive "The most insightful and most complete book on hiring the RIGHT salesperson I have ever seen (or read). If you need great salespeople, this book is not an option, it's an imperative!" - Jeffrey Gitomer, author of 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling "The challenge in building a strong sales organization has always been in identifying and retaining the right talent. Hire Right, Higher Profits looks past the hype. It recognizes that success is about process, and involves more sweat than inspiration. This book offers a detailed and sound process that will deliver consistent results." – Howard Stevens, Chairman, Chally Group Worldwide ***** Hired and fired... It's the revolving door on sales teams. Executives hire what they believe to be great salespeople, but the results never come – and the salespeople are let go. This perpetual cycle eradicates profits, makes revenue targets pipe dreams, and has sales leaders pulling out their hair in frustration. Despite these issues, executives continue to try to "hire great salespeople." That three-word expression is exactly what Hire Right, Higher Profits is all about. Sales management strategist, Lee Salz begins the book by challenging readers with the $25,000 Revenue Test which most executives fail. Then, he hits readers between the eyes with the statement "there are no great salespeople" and offers proof of it! He also cautions those executives – who view the competition as their primary sales talent source – of its risks. But Salz doesn't stop there! He challenges executives to shift their perspective from hiring salespeople to investing in revenue. Each salesperson represents a revenue investment made by the company with the core objective of receiving a fast, high return on it – no different than when companies invest in sales strategies, tactics, and ideas to grow revenue. Hire Right, Higher Profits teaches executives how to determine what type of revenue investment is needed, evaluate revenue investment candidates and get a fast, high return on the investment made in their new salespeople. The book is a step-by-step, practical guide teaching you how to implement the revenue investment concept – impacting both the top and bottom lines. It's a fun, educational read and is chock-full of stories as you learn how to: * Shift your executive team's perspective from hiring salespeople to investing in revenue * Identify the factors that affect revenue investment performance – the causes of a salesperson's success or failure in the role * Assemble a Revenue Investment Evaluation Program to contrast candidates with the performance factors * Scrutinize a Revenue Investment Prospectus – a salesperson's resume – to get to the truth * Evaluate candidates so you select the right salespeople for revenue investments * Protect the revenue investment through structured sales onboarding * Design sales onboarding curriculum to get a fast, high return on the new revenue investments * Assess revenue investment performance both during and post-onboarding The methodology presented in Hire Right, Higher Profits can be implemented in any company, in any industry, of any size. The book is not based on scientific studies, but rather on real-world, field-tested sales management practices that Lee Salz has developed and used for over twenty years with both his sales teams and for clients. Whether you are a seasoned executive or new sales manager, this book has everything you need to build a world-class sales force.

Download or read book Hire to Win written by Tatiyana Cure and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hire to Win is designed to accompany managers looking to achieve better results, higher profits, and more success through the employees they hire. It's more than a guide; it's a step-by-step playbook including ready-to-use templates and tools, recruiter's insider tips, as well as the lessons Tatiyana learned firsthand. While this book was primarily written for hiring managers, human resources professionals and recruiters with limited resources or small talent acquisition teams can also benefit from these strategies. Hire to Win offers a fresh take on traditional how-to manuals and unpacks the full hiring process, from creating a business case to onboarding and engaging the new hire. In this book, Tatiyana dissects the timeless principles of recruiting and interviewing, as well as introduces actionable strategies to enhance the practices currently used in the changing world and business. She reveals how to unlock the keys to success and work smarter rather than harder in hiring. The process of bringing in a new employee doesn't need to feel like a second job. Hire to Win will ease that feeling. This book is structured to be sequential and cover everything from getting approval for the headcount to extending an offer to top talent and onboarding them for long-term success. This way, the hiring team can tap into specific sections depending on wherever they are in the process and get help when it's needed most. In Hire to Win, talent acquisition expert Tatiyana Cure reveals: ?Tactful strategies for asking to hire a new staff member for your team?Shortcuts for writing the best job description and hiring faster?Methods for identifying the best candidates?The science of interviewing to gather data and making well-informed hiring decisions?The art of negotiating and ensuring the job offer is accepted by top candidates?Strategies for onboarding the new hire to ensure theirs and the company's long-term successFor more information, visit www.howtowintalent.com

Download or read book Fully Staffed written by Eric Chester and published by Sound Wisdom. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’ve ever struggled to keep your business staffed with high-performing, loyal employees—even for “unsexy” jobs with high turnover rates—this book is here to solve your hiring and retention woes. Fully Staffed will give you an edge over your competitors by enabling you to streamline your hiring process, expand your brand awareness through job advertising, build a pipeline of qualified candidates ready to fill positions before they’re even vacant, and refine your hiring funnel so that these superstar employees stay with you for the long haul. Packed full of comprehensive research on the resources and strategies available to today's business owners, as well as the stories of business owners and leaders who have utilized them with great success, Fully Staffed lives up to its subtitle of being THE definitive guide to finding and keeping great employees in the worst labor market ever. Each chapter will help you replace desperation with a solid plan of action, as you discover: Why the most crucial employment strategy is perfecting your workplace culture How to implement thoughtful, unique, and digitally-minded job advertising techniques How to leverage the power of community, educational, and governmental networks and programs How to harness the value in under-tapped labor pools like veterans, retirees, ex-offenders, and people with disabilities And how to optimize your onboarding and retention processes In this tough labor market, where the job hunters have become the hunted, employers can’t rely on the hiring tactics of yesteryear. They have to ditch poorly placed “Help Wanted” ads and stop hiring every candidate who walks through the door. Instead, they must be thoughtful about who they want to hire, where and when they will advertise for open positions, how they want to onboard them, and why professional development matters. Read it in part or in full—this encyclopedic guide to hiring and retention has every tip and tactic you need in the common-sense language you want to quickly and easily get off the hire/train/turnover treadmill and get your business FULLY STAFFED.

Download or read book Hire Smart from the Start written by Dave Carvajal and published by Amacom. This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successful business owners don't hire just for immediate needs. They do so with a focus on future flourishing!

Download or read book How to Hire and Develop Your Next Top Performer written by Herbert Greenberg and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work tells managers how to hire right - the first time. It shows managers the real things to look for when hiring or promoting, instead of relying upon experience or some of the other classic hiring myths. The authors identify and explain the four proven factors that will predict an employee's success in sales: empathy, ego-drive, service motivation and ego-strength. They also provide key insights on job matching, team-building, leadership and the successful sales traits for specific industries.

Download or read book Hire Smarter Sell More written by C. Lee Smith and published by Thinkaha. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's an all-too-common tale, told across just about every sales department around the world: The newest salesperson on the team has strong credentials and crushed it during the interview. But now that they're hired, they can't sell a thing! Worse, other salespeople on the team are unhappy for some reason, and their performance is slipping. The top responsibility of a sales manager is not to make numbers. It's to build, develop, and retain a high-performing sales team (so they can make the numbers). The biggest detriment to this objective is adding toxicity to the team. Toxic salespeople often cause problems in the workplace, such as decreased team productivity and morale. Part of this book discusses why sales managers should avoid hiring toxic salespeople and how. This book also discusses how sales managers can hire rainmakers. When a sales team is composed of not only good salespeople but also rainmakers, there's a higher chance that the company succeeds. It's important for sales managers to know what to look for when hiring salespeople and how to determine who the potential rainmakers are. This book is a great guide for sales managers, as well as recruiters, who want to hire smarter and increase their bottom line.

Download or read book Building the Talent Edge written by Greg Moran and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005-04-29 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hunting Excellence written by Vilva Anthony and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunting Excellence: The Art and Science of Acquiring the Right Talent is a comprehensive guide in the space of Talent Acquisition that provides effective strategies and techniques for hiring the right talents into the organization. The book offers an easy-to-understand overview of the Hiring Lifecycle Process and how to Hire the Right Talent to Create a Winning Team! Whether you are a Business Owner, Leader, Head of Department, Hiring Manager or Talent Acquisition Specialist, this book provides practical and easy to apply tips in Acquiring the Right Talents and to ignite creative thoughts to transform your hiring strategy! This book serves anyone who has the opportunity to hire at a scale or grow their line of business, someone who is new to Talent Acquisition space at mid to senior level and for seasoned Talent Acquisition Professionals who would like to have a ready handbook as a refresher to refer at any given point and time. Get Your Copy NOW and Enjoy an Exclusive Bonus Offer. More details about the bonus can be found on our website: https: //acquiringtherighttalent.com.