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Interview Tips for Sales Professionals

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Overview

Join career strategist Jenny Foss as she shows sales professionals how to answer common interview questions with specificity and confidence.

Syllabus

1. Interview tips for sales roles
  • Overview of Sales Development Representative role
  • Overview of Relationship Manager role
  • Overview of Account Executive role
  • Overview of Customer Success Manager role
2. What are you looking for from this company?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
3. Why do you want to work in sales?
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Sales Development Representatives and Relationship Managers
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Account Executives
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Customer Success Managers
4. Review your sales background.
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
5. How do you prepare for and hit your quota goal?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
6. Sales are filled with nos: How do you deal with rejections?
  • How to approach this question
7. Leave me a voicemail.
  • Candidate answer and feedback
8. Where would you research a prospect before reaching out?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
9. How do you address common objections when you are selling?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
10. How do you handle yourself in the face of angry customers?
  • How to approach this question for Sales Development Representatives, Relationship Managers, and Customer Success Managers
  • How to approach this question for Account Executives
  • Candidate answer and feedback
11. How do you manage many relationships over many accounts?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Account Executives
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Customer Success Managers
12. How do you retain a customer who complains about price?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
13. Describe a time you had to deal with a difficult client.
  • How to approach this question for Account Executives, Customer Success Managers, and Relationship Managers
  • How to approach this question for Sales Development Representatives
  • Candidate answer and feedback
14. What do you say to a client when you under-deliver?
  • How to approach this question
15. How do you handle a question when you don't know the answer?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
16. Walk me through your prospecting strategy.
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
17. What steps do you take to convert a non-responsive customer?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
18. How do you manage (or fire) a toxic client?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
19. Tell me about a deal you lost and what you'd do differently.
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Sales Development Representatives and Customer Success Managers
  • Candidate answer and feedback for Account Executives
20. What would your clients say about you?
  • How to approach this question
  • Candidate answer and feedback
21. How do you prepare for a product demo?
  • How to approach a product demo
  • Sample discovery call and feedback
  • Sample product demo and feedback
22. Let's role play interacting with an angry customer.
  • Sample role play and feedback

Taught by

Jenny Foss

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