This is an overview of all The Curious Recruiter Podcast episodes if you’d like to listen to the episodes by their order of publication!
This is an overview of all The Curious Recruiter Podcast episodes if you’d like to listen to the episodes by their order of publication!
This series of episodes will guide sourcers and recruiters (or those aspiring to be) through various stages of the full-cycle recruitment process – from...
If you’re looking for your next career step, listen to the episodes from this Series in order to prepare yourself for any recruitment process and score the...
![😬 I often see recruiters do this same one mistakes on their preliminary calls with candidates.
As a recruiter or a sourcer, you have 2 objectives on your first call with a potential candidate:
1️⃣ Get the person excited about the opportunity
2️⃣ Make sure the person is even a fit
These two are equally important, so there’s a fine line to balance between sharing valuable information and asking questions to assess role-fit.
The one mistake I see recruiters do is to launch directly into the first point.
They take the time to introduce themselves, to position the company, to explain the position in detail. Of course, that’s great: there’s not a single candidate who will not appreciate a thorough recruiter who is able to confidently describe the role, the business and the company — and is even making time for questions!
Dear recruiters, can you see the problem here?
😬 You’ve launched into “a monologue”.
😬 Last but not least, you’re running out of time to ask your questions.
So how can you really balance this fine line between asking questions and selling the role?
💬 Easy - instead of monopolizing air-time in a huge “introductory” block, shift to a real conversation where both speakers are taking (somewhat equal) turns.
Here are 2 super simple ways to do this:
🍃 At the beginning of the call, ask “I’d love to hear what’s going on in your world and what intrigued you about the role/company/my approach”. Listen closely to the answer and build your pitch around whatever points the candidate seemed to
🍃 Before each question, offer information about the role:
Example 1: “In this role, you will be managing several teams distributed teams across various timezones […]. Can you tell me about your experience so far handling these types of complex setups?”
Example 2: One of the biggest challenges in this role has to do with data integrity and making sure every pillar of the company does consistent reporting […]. Have you every been in a situation where you had to overcome a similar challenge of standardizing reporting?”
Try them out on your next call and let me know how it goes!
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