No Experience Necessary

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When hiring salespeople, and others for that matter, we often insist on experience from the same industry we happen to be in. We hope that such a background will reduce ramp up time, and in the case of salespeople, that they will be bringing a good prospect list as well. Vistage Speaker and Executive Recruiter Eric Herrenkohl has a different take on the value of industry experience in hiring. Take a minute for his insights on relaxing an assumption that may help you hire a winner.

BTW, Eric’s book “Hiring A-Players” should be on every C-Level executive’s desk! The discussion of “keeping the couch full” alone justifies the cost!

CATEGORIES: Leadership, Organization, Talent Acquistion, Team Management

Published in 2017

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