How to Buy HR Tech: Sales Leaders’ Advice
Buying new software for your HR tech stack is difficult. From discovering a need to vetting vendors to making a final decision, there are a lot of bumps in the road that can lead to costly mistakes.
When buying new HR software, there is typically a sales person on the opposite side of the Zoom. While these folks are incentivized to sell us, many of them are actually great resources on the industry and landscape of solutions.
We realized that sales people have a bit of insider knowledge as they see things from the vendor side. And, they get to see the processes that a lot of HR practitioners go through to buy software.
With that in mind, we asked salespeople across the HR vendor ecosystem how HR practitioners can improve their process of finding/vetting/buying tools and software. In no particular order, here are our favorite pieces of advice: