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Top 10 Reasons Not to Test Your Sales Candidates
- October 5, 2020
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Testing is not only normal, it’s expected.
So why in the world is it so difficult to get Sales Leaders and HR professionals to test sales candidates?
We hear everything, including this week’s top 10 reasons for not assessing:
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Recruiting Strong Salespeople – The Sales Candidate Pipeline
- July 22, 2010
- Posted by: Kurlan & Associates, Inc.
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Recruiting Salespeople – again?
Yes. I cannot write enough about this!
But, as usual, I’ll address recruiting from a slightly different perspective this time – the candidate pipeline. Not to be confused with the candidate pool which is simply a single component of the pipeline.
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How to be More Effective Selecting Sales Candidates
- September 8, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
When it comes to assessing sales candidates, I strongly discourage benchmarking and here’s why.
Let’s start with recruiting salespeople.
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Sales Force Turnover and How to Deal with it
- August 25, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Leah Rust, Editor at EyesOnSales.com, interviewed me about Turnover on the Sales Force back on August 18. The podcast highlights strategies that executives can actually use to solve their turnover problems. For those of you who are time challenged, this interviews runs less than 8 minutes!
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Many Recruiters Fear Sales Assessments
- August 22, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’ll get a lot of flack over this article. People will say that I’m unfairly characterizing recruiters as dealers of human flesh and that there are recruiters who not only use and pay for assessments themselves, but who guarantee the performance of the salespeople they place. I agree. If you must use a recruiter, use one of them!
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Signs That the Economy Will Soon Improve
- August 22, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
We saw it again. It happened this summer, the tell tale tip off that things are turning around, that CEO’s are feeling confident enough to resume hiring salespeople. Express Screens Licenses have shown a significant upswing and there are suddenly many more in the pipeline.
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Sales Competencies and Case Histories from Using Sales Assessments – The Series
- August 20, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This series of articles describes the various case histories, findings and entertaining stories from assessments used on sales candidates and evaluations of sales forces.
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Sales – What the Data Tells Us – The Series
- August 14, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This article series is called Sales – What the Data Tells Us. While some of the articles simply report the research and/or data, others share either my insights about the data or provide data to support my insights. Here are the articles:
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The Lost Gospels – Most Sales Candidates Really Suck!
- August 6, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
You must have a structured, world-class, sales recruiting process that features a world-class sales specific assessment to consistently identify the sales candidates that will prosper at your company.
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With Manny in LA LA Land the Sales Force Can Produce
- August 1, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I posted this article earlier in the week before Manny Complainez was traded to the LA Dodgers. Mike Carroll posted this article earlier today. The King of Self-Centeredness was granted his wish and sent off, leaving his teammates relieved, happy, and excited about their team’s future.
