Learn How to Hire Sales Reps:

How to Hire Sales Reps

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Learn how to hire salespeople who will improve the overall quality of your sales team.

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    1 Quiz
    37 min
  • Inbound Sales
Lesson description
Hiring is perhaps the hardest responsibility you have as a sales manager, and the stakes couldn't be higher. In this lesson, you'll learn how to make recruiting and hiring salespeople a process that will build a pipeline of talent you can rely on. We'll also discuss how to create an interview process that will uncover the skills and traits that are most important to your team's success and that will help you make good hiring decisions.

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Kyle Jepson

Principle Marketing Evangelist

HubSpot

Kyle teaches sales and CRM courses at HubSpot Academy. He is best known for his work on the HubSpot Sales Software Certification and the Sales Enablement Certification. He is the father of three children, the lucky husband of an equally lucky woman, and aspires to be the author of one of those paperback novels you see in grocery store check-out lines.

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Mark Roberge

Mark Roberge is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He teaches Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing in the second-year MBA program and The Entrepreneurial Manager in the first-year MBA program. He is also the author of "The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million." The book describes how Mark, as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Services at HubSpot, led his employees to the acquisition…

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Dave Casey

Dave Casey currently serves as a principal of Calvus Consulting, a business process and technology advisory firm headquartered in Frisco, TX. Calvus provides consultancy specific to cyber-security as well as organizational structure and operations. Previously, Dave co-founded, grew, and successfully exited Westron Communications, an advanced technology and IT managed services firm. Prior to that Casey held management roles in sales and vertical marketing for Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys),…

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Jim Ninivaggi

With more than 30 years of B2B sales productivity expertise, Jim was responsible for ensuring that the Brainshark field force is ready to sell, leveraging the power of the Brainshark sales readiness platform. As a recognized thought leader in the sales enablement field, he was a resource for Brainshark clients to go to for best practices and innovated approaches to enabling the modern salesforce. Jim previously headed the sales enablement research practice at SiriusDecisions, where he provided…

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Ryan Burke

Ryan is an experienced senior sales and business development executive, specializing in scaling early stage companies and driving enterprise level sales. His expertise ranges across new business development, sales, marketing and product development across diverse industries including: digital media, analytics, social and mobile advertising, research and consulting. He's highly skilled in identifying new market opportunities, developing new revenue streams and managing both enterprise and inside…

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Nicole Sahin

Nicole’s mission is to make it easy for any company to expand into any country as easily as they hire team members in the United States. Her current focus is building the world’s most competent and trustworthy Global PEO to meet the standards of the company’s Fortune 500 clients. She led Globalization Partners to a ranking of No. 33 on the 2017 Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in America, No. 6 on the 2016 Inc. 500 list, has been named Entrepreneur of the Year in New England,…

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Bob Britton

Bob has been in L&D, sales, and sales enablement for more than 25 years. A Navy veteran, his military and corporate leadership experience, along with his MBA, provide a unique and accurate perspective on the current and future needs of our complex and rapidly changing business environment. Bob builds and leads teams which focus on sales optimization, cross-functional knowledge management, organizational development, leadership development, coaching, performance improvement, and paradigm…

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Cory Bray

Cory Bray is a Managing Director at ClozeLoop, a San Francisco-based management consulting firm where he works with early-stage founders and growth-stage companies that are trying to scale revenue. Before ClozeLoop, Cory built sales training programs at three companies, was head of sales at two, and also started a sales-tech software company. Additionally, he has co-authored two books, The Sales Enablement Playbook and Sales Development, and has two more on the way. Cory studied Entrepreneursh…

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Hilmon Sorey

Hilmon Sorey is a Managing Director at ClozeLoop, a San Francisco-based management consulting firm where he works with early-stage founders and growth-stage companies to scale revenue. Hilmon has led three sales organizations from start-up to exit and has been an award-winning trainer and consultant for 10 years working with fast-growth companies including Salesforce, Box, Nutanix, and SurveyMonkey. Hilmon has co-authored two books, The Sales Enablement Playbook and Sales Development, with anot…

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Mike Kunkle

Mike Kunkle is a highly-respected sales transformation architect and internationally-recognized sales training and sales enablement expert. He’s spent 34 years in the sales profession and 24 years as a corporate leader or consultant, helping companies drive dramatic revenue growth through best-in-class learning strategies and his proven-effective sales transformation methodologies. Today, Mike is the founder and sales transformation architect for Transforming Sales Results, LLC. He consults,…

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