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The Best Sales Execs Are Great at The Interview Process, Too

SaaStr

If a sales exec makes it anything but effortless to schedule a job interview with them, Basically it won't work out — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? jasonlk) February 13, 2024 So I remember years ago I went to hire my first VP — ever. Recruiting is sales. But for in-bound candidates?

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Advice Every SaaS Founder Needs to Know in 2024 with Sam Blond and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

At SaaStr Miami, former Founder’s Fund Partner and CRO of Brex Sam Blond — host of the SaaStr CRO Confidential Podcast — sat down with SaaStr CEO and founder Jason Lemkin for a fireside chat about finding success as a SaaS company in 2024. What works well from the classic playbook in 2024, and what should we walk back or modify?

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Recruiting and Retaining the Right Executive Talent

Andreessen Horowitz

Getting executives out of the 1:1 interview process and into a whiteboard session can help you assess their core competencies and how they’ll work with your team. Talent in 2024. You were the shoulder I would go and cry on anytime I would have some sort of executive-level problem or executive recruiting problem.

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Be The Top Pick: Tips to Crush the Job Interview

Sales Hacker

Recruiters are still reporting it as a challenging time to fill roles, with both employers and candidates being more gun shy than previously. Nailing the interview process: Here’s one way to nail the interview process once the interview is landed: 1. Have the 1st interview. At Demandbase, data wins every time.

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Things That Are Different As A More Experienced Entrepreneur

SaaStr

Still, an overall deep-dive on lessons learned the second and third time around: Not Easier : Recruiting – Not Easier. You might think after (goodness) the best part of 20 years of working in tech, 18 as an executive or CEO, and 13 as a founder … I’d be pretty good at recruiting at this point. I’m not.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

They also talked about the difficulties — and potential advantages — of selling into small businesses, taking alternative approaches to interviewing candidates, and the importance of keeping culture a vital part of a company as it scales. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI.

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The Founder Mindset: 3 Places Pessimism Balances Optimism

Sales Hacker

Wiza’s accuracy-obsessed B2B contact database offers 99% coverage of LinkedIn profiles as well as a powerful Chrome extension that enables you to access contact data while browsing LinkedIn profiles and when exporting from Sales Nav. During interviews, it’s easy for disappointment to creep in at this stage. That’s sales.