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The One Metric That Predicts Sales Performance
Episode 77 of Hiring & Firing with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna explore a single metric that top-performing sales organizations use to predict a candidate's future performance before they're hired. They dive into a study of 5,000 sales reps across 30 companies, revealing that the number of times a candidate mentions their own past failures in an interview correlates with a 23% higher quota attainment in their first year. Lucas explains why most recruiters overlook this signal and how to structure questions that surface it naturally. Luna challenges whether the metric works outside sales…
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