Sales Specific – Most companies try to apply a hiring process that works for other functions to Sales. Is your Sales Hiring Process markedly different from your hiring process for non-sales functions?
| Yes | No |
Achievement – Do 92% or more of your new hires make or exceed their sales quota each year?
| Yes | No |
Criteria – Have you identified the really important criteria for success in each sales position, and do these criteria accurately predict whether a candidate WILL succeed?
| Yes | No |
Quality – Do you attract the best candidates possible for your sales positions from your ads and recruiting, or do you attract a high percentage of people you know will struggle to succeed?
| Yes | No |
Predictable – Do you use an accurate, proven, sales-specific assessment with predictive validity on every candidate, and does it separate the Hirable candidates that WILL SELL successfully in your environment from the Non-Hirable candidates that will not sell?
| Yes | No |
Realistic – Is everyone involved in the Sales Hiring Process trained in interview methods that simulate how prospects actually treat your salespeople, and do they identify the very best candidates by seeing how they respond in selling situations?
| Yes | No |
Efficient – Do you have a streamlined, cost effective process that eliminates the inaccurate, time-consuming resume review of unqualified candidates and reduces the number of costly interviews required?
| Yes | No |
Compliant – Is your Sales Hiring Process compliant with the latest EEOC regulations, or are you vulnerable to getting sued?
| Yes | No |
Evaluation – Does your Sales Hiring Process produce an accurate sales-specific evaluation for each new hire that identifies their attitudes, limiting beliefs, hidden weaknesses, and selling strengths, and do you use this evaluation as their development road map?
| Yes | No |
Onboard - Do you have an individualized, 90-day onboarding process that insures your high quality hires become productive sales people as quickly as possible, and does this custom process both develop selling skills and eliminate each individual’s hidden weaknesses?
| Yes | No |
Systemized – Does every sales hiring location use the same proven process after being trained by a sales hiring expert, or do people just do what they think works?
| Yes | No |
Retention – Are 95% or more of your new sales hires still with your company 12 months later?
| Yes | No |