In today's market, great sales managers, sales consultants, and other sales professionals are difficult to find — especially if you want to expand your sales team with mid-level or senior talent or fill more complex management positions. In these cases, you can use some help from a sales recruiting firm.
If you turn to Google, you're flooded with companies that refer to themselves as top sales recruiting firms and promise to find top sales talent for permanent and interim assignments. It's almost as if they grow on trees. But you're looking for something different. Your new employee should possess specific knowledge, be loyal, and bring sufficient experience. You want to hire a sales talent who can help your company grow. So, you need seasoned sales jobs recruiters who put their money where their mouths are. How? By finding a suitable candidate for you fast. The question is, how to find all the elements you're looking for?
Briefly put, yes. This person exists. But candidates rule the market. If you're looking for a sales director, a sales manager, or other sales professionals, it's important to realize one thing: your ideal candidate currently has a job. And a pretty good one, for that matter. Today's talent is not sitting on the couch, waiting for the right vacancy to come along. Most have found their feet at their current employer. So, persuading them to consider a switch is an art in itself — that is, if you manage to find them. First, you’ll need to perform quite some research. Prepare to spend many days sifting through résumés, only to select a handful of potential candidates (if luck is on your side).
Roll up your sleeves, because the hard work has only just begun. Today's candidates expect you to give them the red carpet treatment. And these days, you can only fill sales and management vacancies if you have the right sales skills. Candidates have options, so they go with the most convincing pitch: a short, powerful story that shows them why your job and company are the best choice. If you know how to convey that, they might just pick you. But do you have the required sales skills?
Recruitment has turned into sales. And sales is a profession. Good news: it's our profession! Each of our senior sales professionals has more than 20 years of experience working in management and sales positions. That's why we can offer a unique combination: experience + sales skills + recruitment expertise. The result: successful sales recruitment and selection!
Here's why that's unique. Many recruitment agencies work with junior recruiters: fresh graduates who don't lack talent but who haven't yet gained the authority and experience required to talk to the senior sales talent you want to hire. Can they sufficiently warm your ideal sales manager, business development manager, or commercial director to your vacancy? That usually requires heaps of experience and knowledge.
Some sales recruiting firms use tools to find the right match. Are these tools useful? Not if you ask us. We don’t believe software and assessments are sales recruitment solutions. Rather, they're an Achilles heel when assessing sales candidates.
Sales executives and other sales professionals usually see through them right away. There's no way around it: sales recruitment is a people's job. Because of our thorough experience, it usually takes us mere minutes to read candidates like a book. We can quickly tell whether we've found the right person. If there's a catch or red flag, it won't go unnoticed, for we ask critical follow-up questions — even the uncomfortable ones others are afraid to ask. This approach results in finding a suitable candidate within 3 weeks (that's a guarantee!). And once we've found this person, we'll introduce them to you.
Meeting targets, visiting a dozen customers a week, attending sales meetings, completing administrative tasks as a sales manager: tasks like these used to be on our own to-do lists. That's why we know everything there is to know about sales. We engage in high-level conversations about KPIs and conversion rates to spark candidates' interest — even if they have more than 10 years of experience. They see us as equals because we speak their language. And that's why they take us very seriously. They feel understood.
That's the secret to our success. It's why our sales recruiters (or, sales headhunters) make the right connections to fill your vacancy, even in today's challenging recruitment market.
If you're looking for a sales manager, sales director, or commercial director, you might have entered terms such as 'sales recruiting,' 'executive search,' 'sales search firms,' or 'sales headhunter' into Google. Here's a small lesson in recruitment and selection: you're really just looking for a sales recruitment agency. And sales recruiting is our forte!
Do you want to fill another management position? We can help you with that, too. Whether you're looking for your next HR director or for management-level marketing professionals, SalesSupply can handle assignments like these — regardless of the Dutch city where you want to find a candidate. We work with clients across borders and in all major cities in the Netherlands. Want to know more? Have a look at our page 'sales recruitment agency Amsterdam,' one of the many places where we've achieved success.
That's a guarantee if you work with us.
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