This post was written by Sarah Landes.

According to research from The Bridge Group, 65% of businesses report sales productivity as their #1 challenge, preventing salespeople from reaching their goals.

Do you know how to identify whether you are just temporarily busy or indeed stuck in a rut of overwork? You can identify the problem early on and work pro-actively to reach your sales goals. If you are spending more time mining contacts, building lists, and writing RFPs than actually selling, it’s time to ask yourself the following questions:

In this webinar, Parker Dewey's CEO shares the secrets to positioning yourself for career success (even if you’ve already graduated college) through the use of Micro-Internships.

In less than 30 minutes, you will learn:

1. How to solve challenges related to career success and finding the right career path
2. Benefits of career exploration
3. Improving your odds in today's competitive job market

Recently featured as a guest on the Strong Suit podcast hosted by recruiting expert Jeff Hyman, Parker Dewey's Founder and CEO Jeffrey Moss discusses Micro-Internships. Jeff Hyman cites data confirming that test driving is statistically the most effective way to hire and is "far better than an interview or a reference check."

Hyman describes Parker Dewey as "The Ultimate Job Audition." Learn more about how you can assess candidates effectively and support your other initiatives in this 20 minute reveal-all interview.

How do you assess candidates in most predictive way before you hire them full time? My guest today has an innovative solution.

Work (and hire) more effectively in 5 minutes or less - there's no reason NOT to.

Parker Dewey’s mission is to fix the college-to-career transition for companies and Career Launchers college and grad students and recent graduates. For companies this includes improving hiring effectiveness, driving employee diversity, and decreasing employee attrition.

Are you doing too much work? If you’re a marketing or sales professional, you likely feel overwhelmed on the job more than you should. In fact, 80% of marketing managers feel both overworked and understaffed, and burnout has brought average sales turnover rates up to 34%, which is more than double the all-industry average.

This is a guest piece by Catherine LaBelle, a recent graduate of Purdue University. She currently works with employers, alumni, and students as Constituent Relations Coordinator for Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts.

Statistically speaking, your entrepreneurial business was in trouble before you even got it off the ground. Depending on who you ask, you’ll be told that anywhere between 50 and 90% of startups fail.

Too often, companies just like yours are missing out on opportunities because teams don’t have the bandwidth to take on new projects. This is often because they’re spending too much time on the wrong work, which directly impacts a business’s ability to grow and innovate.