Sales interview · United Kingdom
Sales interview questions in the UK and how to answer them
UK sales interviews often include a competency interview (answer with the STAR method), a role-play and sometimes a call to a mock client. These are the questions that keep coming up.
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Questions you will be asked
- 1Why do you want to work in sales?
- 2Tell me about a time you persuaded someone to change their mind.
- 3Describe a target you set yourself and how you hit it.
- 4How do you deal with rejection?
- 5What do you know about our clients and competitors?
- 6How would you open a cold call to a business owner?
- 7Where do you see yourself in two years?
- 8Sell me this pen.
Sell me this pen.
- 1Ask before you pitch: what do they use a pen for, when did they last need one, what annoys them about theirs.
- 2Connect one benefit to their answer, not five features.
- 3Handle the objection and ask for the sale: «Shall I put you down for a box?»
In Ventaka you can rehearse this test with Cal: it plays the interviewer and the customer, and scores you at the end.