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recruitment

A collection of 78 issues

This or That?

Deceptively simple, yet fiendishly revealing. Also incredibly tricky to write. The ‘this or that’ rapid-fire quiz is a staple of the celebrity profile interview finale. Take a pair of seemingly opposing stops along a particular pop-culture line and shine the headlamp demanding one is chosen above the other. I remember

Early Dotcommer's Contrarian Interview Qu

My recent posts on interviewing [http://salespodder.com/category/recruitment/] reminded me a small piece I’d read on the inc.com [http://www.inc.com/] columns. There one scribe suggests [http://www.inc.com/paul-b-brown/the-unexpected-interview-question-you-should-always-ask.html] his most revealing interview question as; > “Tell me about your friends.” The

Sending A Proposal Cover Letter

As the Nineties dawned, I was once asked by a senior rep to send out a Prop on his behalf while he was out the office. In the prehistoric dark days before wheelie cases, I remember it being for large luggage manufacturer, Antler. I had but emerging knowledge for the

Are You Or Your Prospects Being Mushroomed?

I keep a keen eye out for the latest interview trends. Recruiting salespeople is possibly the most hazardous part of any manager’s job. Sadly sales managers get even less direction and preparation in how to do it well than they receive even on new and polishing selling skill. I’

Has Your Pitch A Jobhunter's Compelling Narrative?

A holiday week flew by where I am at the moment. The broadsheets were keenly aware of this. With their slurry of articles displaying such clickbait titles as this one from London’s Telegraph; have you been working at the same company for too long [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Do You Sway Towards The Ideal Sales Job Candidate?

aka, Do You Give A First-Date Or Joe Friday Interview? One of them is good, the other, terrible… Want to know which one gives results a whopping six times better than the other? Well, according to a couple of pages I read in the pop-psych Sway [http://salespodder.com/sway-the-irresistible-pull-of-irrational-behaviour/

Fashion Design Coffee Pod Recycler Stitched Up By Edit

[https://www.instagram.com/officialrhysellis/?hl=en] Fancy a bespoke, handmade dress that’s graced the catwalk for just £10,000? One crafted from recycled coffee machine capsules? Then enterprising young Brummie design wunderkind Rhys Ellis [https://www.rhysellis.com] is yer man. His innovation came building upon a Milan

How Useful Is Oddball Question About Your Debut Album?

A finding so noteworthy CNN’s Richard Quest deemed it part of his 2016 year’s highlights wrap-up. Job site Glassdoor [https://www.glassdoor.com/press/glassdoor-releases-top-10-oddball-interview-questions-2016/] raked through their forums and gathered the current most eyebrow-raising, so-called oddball interview questions. These are proven catnip for anyone ever having been

When You Gonna Call Your Mummy?

I sat next to a table in a café recently where a Sales interview was underway. It was a chastening experience. Carbon emissions seemed central to their product. Whether that be in corporate credit trading or consumer greenery was beyond my earshot. What I did hear though was an example

10 Questions You Should Always Ask Your Next Sales Boss

From the juggernaut that is mailonline, a tip or ten this week on what to say to your interviewer to ensure the “money and respect you deserve” [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3654359/The-ten-questions-ask-accepting-new-job-ensure-money-respect-deserve.html] in your new job. I wasn’t especially enamoured with their list: > 1. Is