The intention of any firm is to sell its products and services to its customers. Banking sales is a quite challenging job. It involves activities such as planning successful marketing and sales strategies, targeting and developing new accounts, bringing more businesses, and ensuring client satisfaction. A banking sales person is responsible for expanding customer base through a variety of effective sales techniques.

An interview is a recruitment process in which an interviewer asks questions related to the job from an interviewee. It is a two way communication process. Given below are some common interview questions that come up again and again during interviews for this post.

1. What do you like and dislike about the sales process?
This question is asked basically to check the interviewee’s self awareness and motivation. Highlight some of your likes and dislikes in relation to this job. Choose some of the characteristics of your personality and discuss them with the interviewer.

2. What will you do to improve your product or service or your company?
It is a golden chance for you to shine. My motto is “What is good for the company is good for me”. Give a lot of examples and explain the interviewer how you would sale product or services. You have to show your commitment towards improving sales and increasing the customer base.

3. Sell me this pen?
Now this is the time to show your skills to the interviewer. You have to persuade interviewer in each any every way so that he ultimately purchases the pen from you. For this you have to select the key features of the product and tell the benefits of these features to the interviewer.

4. What is your psychology of selling?
It is a good question for you to display your understanding of the entire structure of selling. Focus on your view of selling a product or service. Enumerate the ways as to how you convince the clients.

5. What salary range are you looking for?
You can provide the exact range for salary. However, tell that you are prepared to negotiate and cooperate. You can also say that lets first talk about the job requirements and expectations, so I can get a sense of what you need, then decide the salary.

Many sales professional do not take these questions seriously because they think that their excellent communication and interpersonal skills will carry them through the interview. Please do not ignore these questions. Just plan and prepare your own answers to these questions.