{"id":1332,"date":"2007-12-12T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/sports-and-selling\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T13:34:21","slug":"sports-and-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/sports-and-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports And Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Older article here from our local StarTribune paper &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/jobs\/11399601.html\">Sales Skills Hiring Managers Seek<\/a>.\u00a0 There are some interesting points from the quotes in the article, but one thing that stands out to me are these quotes from different recruiters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;and have achieved in athletics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sports background also helps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This background is couched around the competitive nature of sports transferring to successful selling.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I buy into that correlation, but it does intrigue me.\u00a0 I played sports throughout high school and college and can envision many self-centered teammates I would not recommend for any sales position.\u00a0 Still, I am probably over-focused on the exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>However, I do find these pieces of information far more valuable:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In general, however, companies are seeking salespeople who listen well, ask pertinent questions and bring creativity to the sales process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also seeks people with a good emotional quotient or EQ. &#8220;You need to understand your personality style and that of others to be successful in sales,&#8221; he adds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Older article here from our local StarTribune paper &#8211; Sales Skills Hiring Managers Seek.\u00a0 There are some interesting points from the quotes in the article, but one thing that stands out to me are these quotes from different recruiters: &#8230;and have achieved in athletics. and A sports background also helps. This background is couched around the competitive nature of sports transferring to successful selling.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure I buy into that correlation, but it does intrigue me.\u00a0 I played sports throughout high school and college and can envision many self-centered teammates I would not recommend for any sales position.\u00a0 Still, I am probably over-focused on the exceptions. However, I do&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/12\/sports-and-selling\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,15],"tags":[1762,128,129],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-lu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->