Three things from the last few weeks (and why I'm fired up).
I've been heads-down on three things over the last few weeks. Each one has me more excited than the last.
We built a CV coach, and candidates are loving it
Upload your CV, get honest, scored feedback in minutes. Not "add more keywords". The same feedback I'd give you if we sat down together, built on the way I've coached salespeople for 20 years.
Most CV tools optimise you for a robot. This one tells you whether your CV survives a real sales hiring manager. First five reviews are free.
If you sell for a living and your CV isn't landing interviews, go and run it through. It's the single fastest thing you can do this week to get more callbacks.
We're building the first sales assessment that actually tests selling
Here's my problem with sales assessments. Most of them test personality. A quiz, a colour, a few aptitude questions. None of it tells you if someone can actually sell.
Ours is different. It scores the four traits that genuinely predict sales success: curiosity, coachability, communication, grit. Across three layers: sales DNA, skills, and real experience. The questions adapt to each person, so a ten-year enterprise AE and a first-time SDR both get a fair, relevant assessment.
And everyone gets something back. The hiring client gets a fit report matched to the exact role. We get a clear score. The candidate gets a developmental profile that makes them better, whether we place them or not.
That last part matters most to me.
Malta is moving, and it's a privilege to watch it up close
We've spent weeks mapping the Maltese commercial ecosystem in real detail. The takeaway: this is not a steady-state economy. It's in motion.
International capital is pouring in. Banijay's €3.1bn acquisition of Tipico. French money into gaming, Czech into banking, Japanese into iGaming. Lufthansa Technik just committed €22m to a new hangar and 70 jobs. KM Malta Airlines went from zero to nearly 400 people in two years.
Every one of those is a commercial-team-rebuild moment. New leaders, new mandates, real pressure to hire well and hire fast. That's exactly the moment meritt exists for.
I've not been this excited about a market in a long time.
One thread runs through all three
Hiring salespeople is still too slow, too subjective, and too unfair to candidates. The CV coach, the assessment, the work we're doing in Malta. All of it points at fixing those three things.
If you're hiring SDRs or AEs, or you sell and want a sharper CV, talk to me. No hire, no fee.
Will
Common questions
What is the meritt CV coach, and how do I use it?
Upload your CV and you get honest, scored feedback in minutes, built on the way I've coached salespeople for 20 years. It tells you whether your CV would survive a real sales hiring manager, not whether it's stuffed with the right keywords. Your first five reviews are free.
How is meritt's sales assessment different from a personality test?
A personality test tells you someone's type. Ours tells you whether they can sell. It scores the four traits that predict sales success, curiosity, coachability, communication and grit, across sales DNA, skills and real experience. The questions adapt to each candidate, and everyone gets a developmental profile back, whether we place them or not.
What does "no hire, no fee" actually mean?
You only pay when we place someone who sticks. No upfront cost, no retainer, no risk in having the conversation.
Why is meritt paying so much attention to Malta?
Because the market is moving. International capital is flowing in, leaders are changing, employers are scaling fast. Every one of those moments is a reason to hire great salespeople well, and that's exactly what we do.
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