A few weeks back, we wrote about this hot inside sales hiring market. Tracking this market and thinking about its implications has become a mini-obsession of mine. So being a huge fan of infographics, I thought I'd try to capture this hiring market - visually.

I compiled some statistics and did a little original research/polling and came up with the following: 
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Feel free to share the graphic. Or better yet, share your questions & comments and I'll do my best to make it better.

So what do you think? Find anything surprising in the data?

 
Inside Sales hiring is up. Way, way up.

I was lucky enough to sit in on a preview call for CSO Insights’ 2011 Telemarketing Inside Sales Optimization Report the other day. This chart really hit me between the eyes.

Said another way, over 70% of surveyed organizations are hiring sales people this year. Nearly 1/4 are bumping their sales force size by 20% +. In case there was any doubt, 

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Anecdotally, I can testify that folks with 2-3 years sales experience are in white hot demand right now. Doing a little research, I crunched through about 100 LinkedIn jobs looking for “inside sales” reps. Here’s what I found for desired experience:

The height of the curve reflects the proportion of job postings requiring that level of sales experience. You can see that:

Geoff Alexander over at Geoff Alexander & Company is today's guest blogger. He is kindly sharing an excellent post on "How to hire a superstar inside salesperson".

Via LinkedIn, I recently ran across a post from Ryon Harms entitled, "Your Resume Is Dead. Long Live Your Blog!" I have to admit that as a blogger, this provocative title piqued my interest and I had to immediately click through to his blog.  Which ultimately achieved what he wanted, right?