Field Notes
Where Sales Strategy Meets People Strategy
Practical, research-backed lessons on hiring salespeople and sales leaders, paying them well, and keeping the good ones.
AI Resume Screening in Ontario: The Filter That Quietly Rejects Your Best Salesperson
The AI screen that clears your résumé pile in seconds is not finding your best salesperson... it is finding the one who looks like your last hire. What Ontario now requires, and how to screen fairly.
Psychometric Testing for Sales: What Actually Predicts Performance
Psychometric testing for sales candidates only works if you use the right tools. Learn why standard personality tests fail and what actually predicts revenue.
Why Hiring on Gut Feeling Is the Riskiest Move in Sales Recruiting
The candidate who lit up the room is the one your instinct is worst at judging, and in sales that read is worse than useless. Here is what the research on gut-feel hiring actually shows, and the process that beats it.
Hiring for culture fit is a legal landmine. Here's what to hire for instead
Hiring for culture fit may seem like good judgment, but it is often a legal minefield and a bias trap. Here is what to hire for instead, using the four dimensions of fit.
The Candidate Your AI Just Rejected Is Also a Customer
Most job seekers have now been interviewed by an AI, and most weren't told. How AI screening and interviewing reshape candidate experience, and what it costs you.
AI Was Supposed to Take the Bias Out of Sales Hiring. It Just Learned Yours.
Everyone selling AI hiring is selling you Moneyball. The catch: the tool either learned bias from your history or showed up already carrying it. Here's what the research shows, and how to fix it.
