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Our validated behavioral assessment shows who will win new business, grow accounts or lead a team, before the offer rather than a quarter after it.

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SALES HIRES MADE ON EVIDENCE, NOT IMPRESSIONS

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How it works

From shortlist to confident offer

One assessment, read against the role you’re hiring for.

Not sure what good looks like in your own sales team? Role success profiling defines it first.

What’s included

Everything you need to hire for sales

One validated behavioral assessment, read for sales, gives everyone involved the view they need.

Eight sales areas

From identifying needs and closing deals to staying disciplined.

Role-type fit

New business, account management or sales leadership focus.

Tailored interview questions

Generated from each candidate’s results, ready for hiring managers.

Candidate feedback

An engaging read for every candidate, including unsuccessful ones.

Why sales leaders choose this

Fewer costly mis-hires

Right role

A strong account manager can struggle in new business. Knowing which before the offer saves a difficult year.

  • New business versus account management
  • Sales leadership potential flagged early
  • Placed where they’ll hit target

Fairer decisions

Structured, evidence-based questions replace gut feel, so every candidate is judged on what predicts sales performance.

  • Same standard for every candidate
  • Less room for interview bias
  • Consistent recording of evidence

Sales benchmark

Candidates are compared with more than 7,000 salespeople internationally, so a score means something against real competition.

  • International sales comparison group
  • Eight areas tied to performance
  • Scores hiring managers understand
What it saves you

What one wrong sales hire costs you

A mis-hire costs more than salary: you pay to recruit and ramp twice, while managers and teams absorb the impact of an underperforming role. Tell us how you assess sales candidates today and how many you hire a year, and see how many hires are likely to go wrong, what they cost you, and what assessing with Saville would save.
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Proven results

1 in 50

The odds of a mis-hire when you hire with our expert-level assessments. Without assessments, it’s 1 in 5.

7,000+

Salespeople in the international benchmark

0.57

Predictive validity of our most in-depth assessment

Assessment integrity

Answers you can rely on

Checked as standard

Every assessment runs an unusual response check. If a candidate’s answers follow an unusually strong or abnormal pattern, the platform flags that they should be re-tested, with no extra tool and no extra step for the candidate. And because candidates rank statements as well as rate them, claiming to be strong at everything doesn’t work.

Supervised when it matters

For high-stakes or regulated hiring, remote supervision adds a further layer of assurance on top.

Help & support

Questions, answered

If it’s not here, ask us. You’ll get a fast response from an expert.

A sales assessment measures the behaviors that predict sales performance. Ours is our standard, validated behavioral assessment, read specifically for sales: it shows how a candidate is likely to perform across eight areas, from identifying customer needs and closing deals to staying disciplined and focused on results.

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Tell us about the roles you’re hiring

We’ll show you how the assessment would work for your sales roles and volumes.

Resources

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