Cassidy required unanimous panel approval for sales hires at Talkdesk
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Brendon Cassidy, former VP of Sales at Talkdesk and early Head of Sales at LinkedIn, discusses how his sales team evaluated job candidates.
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“And like, so a talk desk, We had like a panel as myself and like my first three sales hires, and we would listen to them pitch that. And we would say it has to be unanimous. All of us have to sign off on this person. And that was sort of how we would, you know, go up or down in that process.”
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