Smart/Sneaky Phone Tricks To Get Candidates To Call You Back

Listen up, passive-candidate recruiters: If you’re hiring for a boring-sounding position, don’t call it that in your phone message. Please.

Recruiting consultant Lou Adler posts at ERE.net about phone tricks to pique your candidates’ interest and turn the pursuer-pursuee relationship around. I don’t know about this whole “reticular activator” thing, but check out some of these voice mail lines:

1. Your mother called and told me she wanted you to consider this job. (This actually worked.)