{"id":5535,"date":"2019-03-19T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T06:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5535"},"modified":"2019-03-19T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T06:59:51","slug":"the-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/the-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"The Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A manager wears many hats during their career and being a sales manager, you must be able to pull more hats out of your closet than normal. Recently I applied for a job at a surgical sales company that mainly deals in selling surplus surgical products from large hospitals to smaller hospitals at a cheaper price. When I found out about this job, I thought that it was a very smart idea and thought that I would like to be apart of the company. So, I applied and realized that I needed to work on selling myself, so that if I did get an interview I would be prepared. I did in fact get a phone interview and was prepared to try to sell myself to the hiring manager. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of the interview I was nervous but as I got to know the manager, I became more comfortable and after I thought the interview went well. However, after the interview I looked back and realized some things I didn\u2019t during. The main thing that I realized was that the manager did most of the talking during and would stop occasionally to ask if I had any questions about what he had talked about. He mainly talked about what the company did and how they have been growing over the past few years. I realized that the manager was more trying to sell the company to me than me trying to sell myself to him. He did ask me how I could improve the company and what my strengths were, but I felt like we talked about the company more than myself. I later went for a in person interview and had one of the other interviewers conduct the interview and I thought that it went a lot differently. This interview was all about selling my self to the managers and what I could bring to the table. I do think that this interview went well but if I was giving some advice to others applying for jobs, I would say to try to make the managers laugh and feel comfortable with you. Make it just like a normal conversation and everyone in the room will feel comfortable and the interview will go a lot smoother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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