The specific requirements for the basic qualities that cross-border e-commerce B2B salesmen should possess will also vary from industry to industry. The mechanical manufacturing industry has relatively high requirements for salesmen’s logical ability, while the clothing industry and furniture industry have relatively high requirements for salesmen’s aesthetic taste. When deciding to apply for a job at a company, applicants should not only understand the general quality requirements of cross-border e-commerce B2B companies for salesmen, but also understand the specific quality requirements of a certain industry and company for applicants.
1. Please introduce yourself.
This is a question often asked by recruiting companies. The general applicants answer this question too casually, only saying their name, age, hobbies, and work experience. These are all on the resume. In fact, what recruiting companies want to know most is whether the applicant is competent for the job, including the applicant’s strongest skills, the most in-depth research areas of knowledge, the most positive part of the personality, the most successful things done, and major achievements. To highlight the positive personality and ability to do things, it is best to have some relationship with the cross-border e-commerce business.
2. Talk about your biggest strengths and weaknesses.
This question is very likely to be asked. Usually, recruiting companies don’t like to hear too direct answers, such as if you say that you are narrow-minded, jealous, lazy, bad-tempered, and inefficient at work. You should start with your strengths, add some minor shortcomings in the middle, and finally turn the question back to your strengths, highlighting your strengths and overcoming your weaknesses. Of course, it is best if the strengths are related to the business requirements of cross-border e-commerce B2B, such as carefulness, strong logical thinking ability, friendliness, and strong innovative spirit. Everything has two sides. Some applicants feel that they are introverted, which is a disadvantage of working in foreign trade business. However, introversion does not necessarily mean poor communication skills. In practice, some salesmen are usually serious, but when writing emails and communicating with customers, they have strong language expression. Therefore, shortcomings are sometimes not absolute. When answering such questions, applicants can be flexible in describing some of their shortcomings.