Peak Sales Recruiting
About
Peak Sales Recruiting is a B2B sales recruiting firm that recruits sales and sales leadership talent for its clients. It offers Sales Executive Search for sales leaders and Sales Team RPO Search for companies hiring whole sales teams, filling roles from vice president of sales to account executive, sales engineer and sales representative. Its method combines role profiling, headhunting and candidate assessment that includes track record verification, behavior-based interviews and role playing, and psychometric profiling. Peak says it serves technology, software, pharmaceutical, industrial and manufacturing, and medical device companies, and guarantees that if a placed salesperson does not meet agreed goals it will find a replacement without charging for its time and expenses. The company lists recruiting locations across the US, Canada and the UK, and says it was founded by sales leaders.
Roles recruited for
- Sales leadership: Vice President of Sales, Director of Sales and Sales Manager
- Account Executives, Account Managers and Sales Representatives
- Sales Engineers and Business Development Managers
- Channel roles: Channel Representatives and Channel Managers
- Sales operations: Director of Sales Operations and Sales Operations Manager
TopCloserR Perspective
What we’d expect selling here to look like
Peak Sales Recruiting sells recruiting searches to B2B companies, with buyers such as CEOs, VPs of sales, HR leaders and talent acquisition teams who need to hire salespeople or sales leaders. Its staged, fixed-price fee structure and performance guarantee imply a consultative sale where trust in the search process and the quality of past placements decide the deal.
What it builds, by career stage
- Breaking in
- For recruiting coordinators, sourcers and those aiming for a first recruiting or business development role, the business implies headhunting passive sales candidates and running early screens, which builds a working knowledge of what strong sales track records look like.
- Building
- For recruiters, account managers and those working toward those titles, it implies running full searches for sales roles and winning new search engagements from CEOs, sales leaders and HR, where candidate assessment and fit are the product.
- Leading
- For practice leads, directors and heads of business development, it implies managing a book of client searches across sectors and markets, and standing behind a guarantee that ties the firm's reputation to how placed salespeople perform.
Where it can take you
The experience travels to agency and in-house recruiting roles focused on sales and go-to-market hiring, such as technical recruiter, executive search consultant or talent acquisition partner. It also suits moves into business development or account management at staffing, RPO and HR technology companies.
Questions worth asking
Considering a sales role at Peak Sales Recruiting? Ask these in your interview.
- How is work split between finding new client searches and running searches once they are won?
- How does the performance guarantee shape which searches the firm takes on and how candidates are assessed?
- Which sectors or markets, such as software, medical device or Canada, generate the most search work today?
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