{"id":2477,"date":"2011-03-17T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/03\/the-problem-with-hunters\/"},"modified":"2011-03-17T16:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T21:08:00","slug":"the-problem-with-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/03\/the-problem-with-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They hunt \u2013 plain and simple.&#160; You could say it is in their blood.&#160; This becomes an issue when you are attempting to hire a sales hunter as I have witnessed this past week.&#160; One of our customers zeroed in on a particular candidate who is a strong hunter, but my customer took their time in pursuing him.&#160; In that time, he uncovered another opportunity and received an offer.&#160; That offer was later placed on hold so he returned to my customer for an interview.&#160; They thought he would be a great fit, but the first company came back and made him another offer along with my customer.&#160; He went with the other offer.<\/p>\n<p>Confusing I know, but the point here is that hunters keep hunting even when they are securing a deal.&#160; This behavior is their strength and their weakness.&#160; They keep their nose to the ground and keep looking for the next opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Hunters are also difficult to manage in that they take a strong, but understanding manager to work with them.&#160; Hunters can be driven, but they can also be demanding.&#160; They can be empathetic, but they are often competitive.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and most importantly, they can make you a lot of money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They hunt \u2013 plain and simple.&#160; You could say it is in their blood.&#160; This becomes an issue when you are attempting to hire a sales hunter as I have witnessed this past week.&#160; One of our customers zeroed in on a particular candidate who is a strong hunter, but my customer took their time in pursuing him.&#160; In that time, he uncovered another opportunity and received an offer.&#160; That offer was later placed on hold so he returned to my customer for an interview.&#160; They thought he would be a great fit, but the first company came back and made him another offer along with my customer.&#160; He went&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2011\/03\/the-problem-with-hunters\/\">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":[2,16],"tags":[1024,1686,212,1749,38,1687,1426],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-DX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477"}],"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=2477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477"}],"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! -->