Fantasy Football & Hiring- What Type of “Player” Are YOU?

According to Chicago-based employment research firm, Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Fantasy Football will cost US employers $17 Billion in lost productivity. So naturally, I started the first ever Hobson Fantasy Football league this year!…

…Last week 8 of us sat in the 'War Room' (our recently renovated Conference Room) agonizing over each pick we’d all spent hours (after 5PM of course) studying trends, and relying on ESPN Senior Fantasy Analyst Matthew Berry’s hot takes and advice!

The first rounders were no-brainers: Antonio Brown, Odell Beckham, Jr (GO GIANTS, shameless fan-plug), Gurley, Julio Jones, etc. But the middle rounders were the more difficult tasks: Do I take a mediocre, inconsistent WR from the Falcons in Sanu who wasn’t kept in Cincinnati, OR do I take the veteran RB Gore who is trying desperately to make an impact in Indy?

And then it hit me! ... That’s what employers are facing in their Hiring Practices. All VPs of Sales want the Sales Pro with the stat line on their resume that looks something like this:

But the reality is that most VPs of Sales are debating whether to take the sales pro who had that ONE BIG DEAL 5 years ago, or take the sales pro who had a couple years over 100% to quota, but a few of the 70-80% years mixed in too?

I source, recruit, screen and interview all kinds of candidates – the “A players” as seen in the chart above (any VP of Technology Sales that wants access to that person – click here), the B/C players capable of catching lighting in a bottle and go wildly over quota a few times, and the D/F players that have every excuse in the world when I ask them “How much did you close?”

So ask yourself- what round would you be drafted in if there was a Fantasy “Sales” League? And if you don’t like the answer, make some changes.

Now excuse me, I have to go drop Sanu and add Jerrick McKinnon from the waiver wire!

-Don