S7E3 - Selling Against the Competition and Sales Interviewing Best Practices

About this episode

Richard and Scott discuss objection handling techniques and strategies for succeeding in sales interviews.

Handling objections is more than just memorizing the battle card. Richard and Scott go head to head on how they would sell against each other giving you the perfect objection handling best practices without bashing the competition. They then dive deeper in how to score more interviews, improve your resume and tell your story in the competitive job market of the sales industry.

People in this episode

Hosts: Richard Harris, Scott Leese

Topics covered

• objection handling
• sales competition
• job market
• resume improvement
• interviewing best practices

Keywords

• objection handling
• sales
• interviewing
• resume
• job market

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