My Objections To The Hiring Manager
My Objections To The Hiring Manager
My Objections To The Hiring Manager
Lack of Business intelligence - A country manager must have business intelligence skills to
gain insights from data. Data-driven decisions require someone who understands the essence of
different data points either from structured data or big data. The company has been in operation
for some years now. Expansion in the new markets will depend very much of data from different
sources such as customer spending behaviours, suppliers, and competitors. Currently, you do
lack basic knowledge in statistics and tools for data analytics such as Microsoft spreadsheet,
python, and SPSS. For a manager who seeks to manage a country branch, most of the decision
Lack of people management skills- for a manager that seeks to manage a new branch in another
company, it is imperative to have people management skills. You will not work alone but
working in a new market demands that you have skills for managing other people who come
from different cultural backgrounds. Poor management skills are likely to result in many
conflicts and strikes. Whenever this arises in the company, we are likely to experience High
turnover, lower performance, and lower morale among employees. A majority of disgruntled
Lack of skills working agents - the business will rely heavily on a strong partnership with
agents in the new market. According to the company operation business model, the country must
be someone who has skills of creating and maintaining a high number of agents. Presently,
according to your resume, you have only worked at a departmental level while maintaining the
company customer accounts. Working with agents means visiting agents' areas of operations and
pitching the company ideas. This will help strengthen the relationship between the company and
future agents.
Question Six - Strategies to overcome objections
First, based on the lack of business intelligence skills, I acknowledge your concern about
the person you would like to work with in the new market. I have been taking online classes
since I got the chance to work in this company. Immediately I began working in the current
position, I realised that most of the work involved handling internal data from customers.
Besides, other co-workers encouraged me to enrol in the online course. I understand my resume
does not display such skills. I have not yet updated my resume to reflect the new skills.
Second, concerning the aspect of people management skills, I acknowledge it forms one
of the important requirements for handling employees from the local community. I think the
company has provided me with an efficient environment to learn interpersonal skills. Even
though it is not expressed in the resume, I have been in a constant learning journey in this
company. Besides, I am a feast learner. I will take a short term to onboard and learn everything