2017 is halfway over, which means it’s a great time to review your sales and marketing goals. A mid-year check allows you to evaluate your progress so far, and help your department identify the best place to focus to ensure 2017 ends strong. How to Evaluate Your Sales and Marketing Progress Evaluation helps your company… Read more »
A good recruiting plan grows as the company grows. It’s adaptable enough to meet the challenges ahead, but also focused and responsive enough to get results. How can you build a scalable recruiting strategy? Keep these tips in mind: Make your applicant tracking system work for you. An Applicant Tracking System (ATS) can help you… Read more »
A high rate of employee turnover hurts businesses. It seems that just after have you brought in new talent and showed them the ropes that they announce their plans to leave. This leads to teams having difficulty trusting one another, and individuals scrambling to fill in the “gaps” when positions are left vacant. Planning for… Read more »
In some ways, great sales talent in the biotech industry is indistinguishable from great sales talent in other industries. Top sales professionals are motivated, outgoing, and inspired to keep learning more about new products, services, and procedures. When all your top candidates meet these criteria, however, how can you choose among them? One way is… Read more »
Many sales and marketing managers are familiar with the 80/20 principle – the idea that 20 percent of your staff are “superstars” responsible for 80 percent of your sales, while the remaining 80 percent of your staff are turning in the last 20 percent of your sales. While these numbers might not exactly match your… Read more »
It’s the best of problems; it’s the worst of problems: after a long hiring process, you’re facing a choice between two equally qualified, outstanding sales or marketing candidates. Either person would make a great addition to your team. So whom do you choose? While having such a strong candidate pool is great, making the “final… Read more »
From entry level to the executive suite, almost every employee is vulnerable to burnout. Identifying the signs early can help employers to address the problem right away, either by taking steps to relieve excess stress, or if it can’t be remedied, letting the employee go. Performance Issues Work quality can quickly go downhill when an… Read more »
Interviewing offers your company a chance to get to know a people one on one and discover their value proposition for the job. Typically this interview is the only chance hiring managers get to evaluate people before a crucial hiring decision is made. Consequently, many hiring managers seek to fit in as many interviews as… Read more »