Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Ian Skinner
Erika L. Walker wrote: > Another thing I thought of - and something I think I will do when I > get to this point, is to have the potential employee/sales person, > etc, block off at least 4 hours of their day to come and spend it with > you. I've had a couple of interviews just like this. These

Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Rastafari
From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:du...@cfexperts.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:24 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview > > > Hi All, > > > > Has anyone been involved in interviewing sales candidates? I will be > interviewing a coup

RE: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Jacob
Give them a pen. Tell them they have 15 seconds to sell you this pen. -Original Message- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:du...@cfexperts.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:24 AM To: cf-community Subject: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview Hi All, Has anyone been involved in

Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Erika L. Walker
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Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Gruss Gott
> Eri-k-a wrote: >    * Tell me about the last time you broke the rules. > I'm totally using that. Kind of funny story along those lines too. A good friend of mine is an awesome engineer/architect. A peer of his was interviewing with a major silicon valley firm last October and wanted to use h

Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Erika L. Walker
Another thing I thought of - and something I think I will do when I get to this point, is to have the potential employee/sales person, etc, block off at least 4 hours of their day to come and spend it with you. See what you do, how your company operates. What goes down on an average day. Understa

Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Erika L. Walker
Besides all the good stuff Gruss talked about - I found this article. Website is in CF too. Bonus! AND he's a fellow Georgian... http://www.recruitersnetwork.com/articles/article.cfm?ID=1516 Ponder for a moment the last person you hired. After you selected them, did they work out as intended? Or

Re: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Gruss Gott
> Duane wrote: > Has anyone been involved in interviewing sales candidates? I will be > interviewing a couple of sales people next week for an opening I have and > I've never interviewed or managed a sales person before. > One of the classics is to email them a made-up (or real) product sheet of

RE: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Stewart
) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -Original Message- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:du...@cfexperts.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:24 AM To: cf-community Subject: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview Hi All, Has anyone been involved in interviewing sales candidates? I will be

RE: Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Scott Raley -ITC
I've interviewed people for IT positions and all I get are secretaries and sales people applying for them, does this count? -Original Message- From: Duane Boudreau [mailto:du...@cfexperts.com] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 8:24 AM To: cf-community Subject: Need to Conduct a

Need to Conduct a Sales Interview

2009-02-26 Thread Duane Boudreau
Hi All, Has anyone been involved in interviewing sales candidates? I will be interviewing a couple of sales people next week for an opening I have and I've never interviewed or managed a sales person before. Any suggestions? Thanks, Duane ~~~