Hire A Sales Superstar

Although there are many great and fun things about interviewing sales people, they do have a tendency to be very good at showing and discussing their primarily attractive features. They also have a tendency to “fudge” the not so desirable traits.

The nerve of these salespeople not talking about their bad habits!

Buyer beware. Beware of the sales interviewee.

Sales people are the trickiest to hire right because they are extremely adept at selling. And selling is what you do as an interviewee in a sales interview. After all, when you interview sales people you are in essence, interviewing “professional interviewers”. And what is a job interview after all? It’s really just a glorified sales call. This is after all, what they do all the time. And along the way, due to their profession, they have become extremely adept at featuring the most desirable and attractive parts of their products when they are in a sales call with a prospect. 

When they interview with you, the circumstances are really no different.

The difference is that the professional sales interviewer will be far more versed and experienced than a chemist per se, in minimizing their faults, due solely to the fact that they perform similar “ sleights of hand” in their everyday work. It stands to reason that the salesperson would be far more adept at this skill than the average interviewer.

Keep this fact in mind when you are interviewing; you are dealing with “professional interviewers”, because of what they do for their chosen vocation. Don’t ever forget that they know all the features and benefits of the product they’re attempting to sell you. And they can sell those most attractive features and diminish the unattractive features better than any widget they could ever sell.

They know their product’s features extremely well, no doubt. But they also know its not-so-good parts equally as well. And they may not want to tell you everything about those aspects of the product. To uncover both the good and the not-so-good will be up to you to figure out.

Post your comments in this blog and tell me how do you deal with these “Professional Interviewers”.