I heard this joke a couple of days ago and thought it was worth passing along:
HR Rep: Here is a stack of resumes for your open sales position.
Hiring Manager: Can you please show me the good resumes.
HR Rep: Here you go. [hands over a dozen resumes]
Hiring Manager: [Takes the resumes and throws six of them in a waste basket, then hands the other six back to the HR Rep] I will interview these six.
HR Rep: What about the ones you just threw away??!
Hiring Manager: They were unlucky and I don’t hire unlucky sales people.
Note – The joke above sounds ridiculous, but if we are honest we have to accept that luck is a big part of sales success. Fortunately, luck is often not happenstance. The rep that works consistently hard and smart, will create more good luck .
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Eliot Burdett
Eliot received his B. Comm. from Carleton University and has been honored as a Top 40 Under 40 Award winner.
He co-authored Sales Recruiting 2.0, How to Find Top Performing Sales People, Fast and provides regular insights on sales team management and hiring on the Peak Sales Recruiting Blog.
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