Getting every advantage possible when recruiting is important. It’s a candidate’s market, and top finance talent gets snatched up quickly. You only have a short window to connect with and entice a candidate to choose your organization. How you communicate with them can have a big impact on your ability to establish rapport and engage the candidate.
Most companies today rely heavily on modern forms of communication to connect with candidates. They send emails, texts, and use social media to communicate. Communicating in this way is effective, and there are a time and place for each. However, there is something to be said for picking up the phone and calling the candidate directly.
Here Toronto finance recruiters outline some top reasons why you should pick up the phone when wooing finance candidates:
1. It’s More Personal
Calling a candidate on the phone is more personal than sending an email. It shows right away that you have more interest. It can help you create a personal connection, put a voice to a name, and humanize the communication.
2. Establish a Connection
By picking up the phone, you can get a better idea of how much interest a candidate has. Verbal cues, pauses, tone of voice and level of enthusiasm can tell you a lot about your candidate and the connection you have with them. Words can mean more. As they say, sometimes it’s not what you say, but how you say it. Speaking over the phone can help you learn more about how much of a connection you may have and how interested the candidate really is about the opportunity.
3. More Detailed Communication
You can communicate a lot more in a much shorter time over the phone. Even a 5- to 10-minute call can tell you a lot about a candidate, and you can tell them a lot about your organization. In this sense, picking up the phone can help you get further along in the recruiting process, exchange more information, and eliminate the need to email/text back and forth.
4. It Shows You Are Interested in the Candidate
Calling a candidate shows you are interested, perhaps even more so than sending an email. You can say the same thing in an email and over the phone, but the fact that you took the time to call says a lot.
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