Expanding your team? Here’s how to avoid a big selection mistake.
Are you talking too much in the interview?
A lot of recruiters/interviewers think that, if they’re great talkers, they’re great recruiters (same as agents think talking equals selling…..)
You’re an agent who wants to expand to a team–or expand your team. You want to get winners in that recruiting seat. You pride yourself on being a great talker. (A manager once told me he just talks them to death–until they say they’ll join the company–what a great screening method-not!) But, too much talking is just old-style hard ‘selling’–and that’s certainly not the bulk of an effective selection process.
Ask, Don’t Tell
Probe to find out more. Keep finding out more until you’re really sure you know what they mean. Let me give you an example:The recruit says, “I want a deal.”
Do you jump to a conclusion because you know what a deal means? Don’t. You may be surprised. Instead, ask questions at what does a deal mean to that recruit? When you know exactly what the recruit means, you can proceed to find what he really wants–instead of what someone else told him he should ask for!
A Pre-Screening Process for a Candidate to Save you Time
Ask some questions before you spend time and money chasing candidates who don’t meet your standards. Click here to get my knockout factors on the phone for agents that I want to recruit. Make your own questionnaire based on who you are recruiting for a particular position.
Use In-Depth Questionnaires to Discover Real Needs
Besides using these preliminary questions, always use written in-depth questionnaires so you’ll know
- The benefits to the features/needs stated
Hidden objections you may not discover until too late
Motivations to buy that not even the buyers realize they have
Ever heard the term “buyers are liars”? I think that’s not really the case. I think that we don’t ask the right questions to help buyers (our recruits) clarify what they really want. Most ?buyers of services don’t know what they really want. They think they want a better commission split. But, what they’re really looking for is the motivation provided by secrity. That means different things to different people. Find out what’s really motivating your candidate, not just what he says to your basic questions.
Ask the Right Questions in the Right Order and You Won’t Have to Close
Finding the motivators of your buyers (recruit/candidate) is key to helping them make the right buying decisions for themselves. All you have to do to close is to remind them that this product fulfills their needs. And, how do you get there? By creating and using the right questions in the right order.
Don’t forget to grab your pre-screening process–knockout factors to ask on the phone: click here.
Want to streamline your selection process and recruit more winners? Check out Your Blueprint to Selecting Winners. It’s completely digital, so you get all the information right now. Includes an 11-step proven process to interview successfully. Do you have a process or do you just ‘wing it’?
All you have to do to close is to remind them that this product fulfills their needs. And, how do you get there? By creating and using the right questions in the right order.
Don’t forget to grab your pre-screening process–knockout factors to ask on the phone: click here.
Want to streamline your selection process and recruit more winners? Check out Your Blueprint to Selecting Winners. It’s completely digital, so you get all the information right now. Includes an 11-step proven process to interview successfully. Do you have a process or do you just ‘wing it’?
