A YouTube reaction video (Christian Polk) addressing how to respond to the common interview objection "you have no experience," especially for sales roles. The speakers role-play the objection, emphasize that experience ≠ skills, recommend demonstrating persuasion and follow-up behaviors during hiring, and Christian Polk shares a personal anecdote about proactively contacting a hiring manager and winning a high-ticket sales role without formal interviews. The clip also notes viewer pushback in comments (sarcastic/critical).
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So what do you say to a sales manager who says he won't hire you because you have more experience? Do you want to role play? Sure. Okay, so you start. Yeah. So Dan, we cannot hire you because you have no experience. I'm sorry. Yeah, I understand that you're looking for someone with experience, which is fine, but what do you think you're actually looking for when someone has experience? Skills. Okay, but does someone having experience mean they have skills? We hope. You hope so? Yeah. Because I'm sure you've hired people in the past about three years experience and never even close the deal when they jump on. Right? Yeah. Because we're human after all. Yeah. So knowing that experience doesn't mean skills. I mean, does it make sense that you only hire people with experience? Just less risk for the company.
Really good. Overall, when you're on an interview for a sales role, it is pretty reasonable that you're going to have to use your persuasion skills. That's what sales is to get the job. This also includes making sure you're following up with people you interview with or you sent applications to. Like you're following up, you're checking in, you're doing the things that a normal salesperson would do and handling people's concerns on owner's concerns, hire managers concerns is absolutely something you should be doing on your calls. A real quick story of how I got one of my first sales job in the high ticket space where I got to my first 20k per month. They had an application for hiring salespeople and by the time I had found the application, it was already closed and they were on like this second interview. Right. They had their interviews and then they're gonna have a role play and then they're gonna hire them. So I went, I saw that and I found their sales manager on LinkedIn. I had messaged him and then got his number, called him him an actual call, a sales call that I had and I got hired without having to do any role plays or interviews. If you actually go out of your way to show your skill set, you will get better roles and you will make more money. So not only handling people's objections like this on actual interviews, but going out, actually contacting managers, reaching out to them, sending sales calls. Show that you're good at sales. They don't want to just take your word for it. Show them. This is so funny. The number one comment I see here is, sir, this is a job opening for heart surgery. If you're heart surgeon, you can't.
Objection.
Your way to actually getting a job that should probably be on merit.
