Sales, Media and Marketing Recruitment

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Started in 2004, KAS Placement is a sales staffing company and an executive marketing recruitment agency with presence throughout the United States. Our sales staffing company recruits both domestically and in Canada. Our headhunting team has experience recruiting in nearly every client vertical including finance, media, insurance, telecommunications, software, IT services, insurance, fashion, advertising, manufacturing, logistics, construction and much more.

How We Find Resumes and Pertinent Job Applicants

Our executive sales staffing agency finds applicants a myriad of ways - some of these are more reliable than others. Our marketing sales headhunting team has an internal database of thousands of qualified marketing and sales experts. Typically, our sales staffing agency is able to draw a few good employment seekers directly from our in-house software run database and is able to present qualified job applicants to our client within a short period of time. Additionally, our recruiting agency networks with many professionals within several industry verticals and often obtain resumes through reference via different contacts we have spoken to in the past. Our sales staffing agency believes it is crucial to form relations with the better applicants whom our headhunters come across. Although, this is quite time consuming our recruiters strongly believe that maintaining good working relations is crucial in the headhunting vertical.

Upon receiving a new job requisite from an employer, our sales staffing agency also posts the open job position on our Open Jobs page. Because our marketing recruitment division draws hundreds of unique marketing and sales employment seekers to our website on a daily basis, the majority of the time, qualified job seekers will our sales staffing agency. The aforementioned website page is also followed by several national newspapers around the country, and once posted through these mediums, our recruitment exposure is further heightened. Finally, our executive headhunting team has access to all the major online job sites in which we can go out and actively search for candidates who meet the criteria.

Looking for a Good Business Development Interviewer

Once our executive sales staffing agency gathers the pertinent resumes, our sales recruitment team begins the interviewing process whether it be in-person or over the phone. Our sales recruiters look for a few traits during a sales or marketing question and answer session. These include how quick the applicant is on their feet, how we perceive them to be at cold calling and other prospecting methods (mainly for sales, social media and online marketing positions), a strong knowledge of the industry in which our client is in, a history of selling into the target market of our client, a perceived ability to meet with and sell or market to C-level decision makers, an average sales volume which is close to the average sale price of the service or product of our client's offering.

Additionally, our executive sales staffing agency looks for business development professionals with a consultative sales style. Instead of trying to sell clients on a particular product or service, our recruiters feel that acting as a consultant and uncovering the needs of a client, allows the account executive to firmly understand how to pitch a product. What a lot of the mid and lower team account executives don't understand is that a sales call is more of a conversation rather than a presentation. Some sales staffing agency will tell you it is necessary, though we don't believe it is. Instead of meeting with clients face to face, our sales recruitment professionals would rather be working on the placement. Owning a sales staffing agency, I am the first one to know that time is money.

Some of the other things our sales staffing agencies seek out is an ability to quickly respond to emails and phone correspondence, thus showing an interest in the position. If the individual is unemployed, our recruitment team likes to see that the employment applicant has remained busy for the gap in his or her resume. For sales positions, our sales and marketing recruiters require that all job applicants have a history of meeting quotas, however understand that in certain industries, 2000, 2001, late 2007, 2008 and 2009 should have shown a dip in quantity sold. Our executive sales staffing agency also seeks a job applicant who has good references who can attest to the past success of the individual. Also, our executive sales staffing companies likes to see a person who is honest, sincere and over all likable.

Once our sales staffing company begins working with a new client, several job applicant resumes are promptly sent to the hiring organization for their feedback and next interviewing steps. All of our clients have a different interview process, and our sales staffing agency is more than glad to accommodate their needs.

Looking for Someone Who Can Speak with and Close a CEO

There are many senior and junior sales professionals who choke up upon meeting with a CEO. A lot of the time, in the opinion of our sales staffing agency, the sales representatives feel that being rejected by a CEO of a company is one of the worst things which could happen. I once got advice from my late mentor, Harvey Cohen, when he told me to relay to my Jr. and beginner applicants that speaking with a CEO is no different that speaking to a stranger on the street. Our sales staffing agency, typically has our President, Ken Sundheim, attend the meetings, however for training purposes, Ken always brings a very young rep. in the office because they should feel comfortable doing this. Four months out of college, Sarah Wharton can run the meetings herself which is quite impressive (obviously, I have to be there). Though, I feel that this is a good experience for the younger people and our sales staffing agency likes to fast track them.

Instead of selling the actual CEO on our sales staffing services, I like to pick their brain. CEOs are not stupid (sometimes dishonest, but not stupid) and they can tell when you are attempting to cell to them. They can also sniff out a lack of confidence as if they were a bloodhound. Though, most of them are really nice. Not many CEOs got where they are by being brash, incompetent or tough to deal with. Though, as recruiters you always have some CEOs who take themselves too seriously, however good listing skills combined with a friendly demeanor as well as knowledge of the product, will work just fine. Overall, our sales staffing agency makes it quite lucid to the salesperson that they should work with the C-level personnel not to or against them. FYI - chat a little bit before discussing business - it's very helpful.

Special Traits Our Marketing Recruitment Agency Looks For During the Recruiting Process

Our sales staffing agency has been a major shift from traditional forms of marketing to almost solely online marketing, when our staffing agents search for a marketing professional, we look for a few things. First, online marketing and online media employment.

Job seekers should have a knack for writing webpage content which is industry relevant, constantly fresh and interesting or informative to the reader. The individual also has to be able to write consistent blogs which result in the following of several readers, thus driving people to the website. Blogging also must be used in conjunction with Twitter and other social media sites. Once a marketing professional obtains, or preferably has a following, more and more potential customers will be directed to the corporate website. This is just part of the reason why our executive recruiters actively seeks out marketing experts who have superb writing skills combined with great industry knowledge.

Last, there are two other main facets of online marketing that must be present in all of our candidates. These are the two most important facets: search engine optimization writing (SEO) and prospecting for incoming links to the website. Without an ability to perform these tasks, an online marketing professional will, more than likely, fail at their attempts to increase website traffic. Our marketing recruiters and sales staffing agency is thoroughly trained to look for these.