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Sales manager interview kit: job ad, questions on selling skills, a role-play test task and a scorecard

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Sales manager interview kit: job ad, questions on selling skills, a role-play test task and a scorecard

Example result

Example for the Standard package

Interview kit: barista for a busy city-centre coffee shop

Short job ad

Barista, full-time, city centre. $18–20 an hour plus tips, shifts from 6:30 am, two weekends a month. You'll make coffee for about 600 people a day, keep the bar clean and remember what the regulars drink. Six months behind a busy bar is enough; we'll teach you our recipes.

Stage 2: main interview (4 of 18 questions)

CompetenceQuestionA strong answerA weak answer
Working under pressure"Tell me about your busiest shift. What did you do when the queue reached the door?"A real shift, a clear order of tasks, asked for help earlyTalks in general terms, "I just work faster"
Care for guests"A regular says their flat white tastes different today. What do you do?"Asks what is different, remakes it, checks the grinderDefends the drink, or remakes it without asking
Teamwork"How do you share the bar with a colleague when you're both making drinks?"Clear roles, calls out orders, cleans as they goPrefers to work alone
Reliability"Our shifts start at 6:30. How would you get here?"A concrete plan and a back-upNo plan

Scorecard (weights)

CompetenceWeightScore 1–5
Working under pressure30%
Care for guests25%
Coffee basics20%
Teamwork15%
Reliability10%

Files: Word and PDF. Every question is about the job: none asks about age, family plans, health, religion or origin. We never search for or contact candidates, and the choice of whom to hire is yours.

Client: Morning Fold, a coffee shop with 9 staff and about 600 orders a day. Task: hire a barista who stays calm at the morning rush and is friendly with regulars. Standard package: a job ad in two versions, a phone screen and a main interview, 25 questions and a weighted scorecard. Excerpt below.

The client and all details are made up.

About this service

Sales candidates are good at selling themselves, which makes them hard to compare in a free-form chat. This kit gives you a structure: a job ad that states your real targets, pay and commission, questions on how the person finds clients, runs a pipeline, handles objections and negotiates, and what strong and weak answers sound like, for example vague talk of 'big numbers' versus clear examples with the steps behind them. The scorecard rates every candidate on the same points. Premium adds a role-play test task, such as a short call or meeting with you as the client, with a guide to judging it. We never search for, contact or screen candidates, and we give no advice on whom to hire. Questions avoid age, family, health, religion and origin. Employment rules differ by country, so check the kit against yours.

What is included

  • What you getA Word and PDF document: a sales job ad for your role, interview questions grouped by sales competence for each stage in your package, notes on what to listen for in strong and weak answers, and a scorecard. From Standard, a short phone-screen stage, a short version of the ad for job boards and a weighted scorecard; in Premium, a third stage, a role-play test task with a guide to judging it and questions for references.
  • An honest sales job adReal targets, base pay, commission and who the clients are
  • Questions on sellingFinding clients, pipeline, objections, negotiation and closing
  • Results you can checkAsking for the steps behind past numbers
  • ScorecardThe same points and scale for every candidate
  • Fair questionsOnly about the job, nothing on age, family, health or beliefs

How it works

  1. 1
    BriefYou describe the sales role, clients, targets and pay
  2. 2
    KitWe write the ad, questions, answer guide and scorecard
  3. 3
    DeliveryYou get the kit in Word and PDF on the order page
  4. 4
    Your interviewsYou post the ad, invite candidates and interview them yourself

What we need from you

The sales role and level (inside sales, field sales, key accounts, head of a sales group), what you sell and to whom, deal size and sales cycle, targets, base pay, commission and other conditions you really offer, must-have and nice-to-have skills, tools such as a CRM, how many interview stages you plan and who will interview, and what the ad should say about your company. You may attach a job description or an old ad as Word or PDF files or screenshots, up to 3 files. Please do not send candidates' CVs or other personal data.

We will ask you:

  • What kind of sales role is it?
  • What do you sell, and to whom?
  • What do you offer?
  • How will you interview?

Compare packages

PackagesBasicJob ad and 10 questions$13StandardJob ad and 25 questions in 2 stages$25Premium40 questions in 3 stages and a role-play$43
Deadline1 day2 days3 days
Revisions123
Job adfull versionfull and short versionsfull and short versions
Interview questions102540
Interview stages123
Competences coveredup to 4up to 6up to 8
Scorecardsimpleweightedweighted, for each stage
Test task with a checking guideNoNoYes
RoleSales managerSales managerSales manager
Order BasicOrder StandardOrder Premium

Payment protection

You pay when you order, but the money is released only for accepted work.

  • Fixed priceThe package price does not change after you pay.
  • The money is reservedWhen you pay, the amount is only reserved. It is released to the service once you accept the work.
  • Checked before deliveryEvery result goes through a quality check before it reaches you, and you see it on the order page before accepting it.
  • Free revisionsAsk for changes within your brief as many times as the package allows.
  • Acceptance after 3 daysIf within 3 days of delivery you neither accept the work nor ask for changes, it is accepted automatically. If you write in the order chat after delivery, the order waits; once we answer, we may start the 3 days again and will say so in the chat.
  • Redo or a full refundIf the result does not match your brief and the revisions did not fix it, or the work takes more than twice its deadline, write in the order chat: we will redo the work or refund the payment in full.
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Questions and answers

Will you find or contact sales candidates?

No. We prepare the documents; you post the ad, invite candidates and interview them yourself.

Will you tell me which candidate to hire?

No. The scorecard helps you compare candidates on the same points, but the decision is always yours.

What is the role-play in Premium?

A short practical test close to the real job: for example a cold call or a meeting with an objection, with a brief for the candidate, a time limit and what a good result looks like. You or a colleague play the client.

Will the ad promise high earnings?

Only the pay, commission and examples you send and can stand behind. We never invent income figures.

Are the questions fair and lawful?

Every question is about the job. We leave out age, marital status, children or pregnancy, health, religion, origin and similar topics. Check the kit against your local employment rules; this is not legal advice.

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