Boiling Down Recruiting to the Task Level

by | Dec 23, 2024

Have set your recruiting goals for next year?

Every brokerage and team should set recruiting goals, and most do.

While goals articulate the desired outcomes, they often don’t address the tasks that lead to the anticipated results.

For example: If you want to hire 6 new agents for your office next year, what tasks are necessary to make that happen?

For new agent recruiting, here are three tasks that should be tracked (there could be several more):

1. Sourcing recruiting prospects

2. Conducting interviews

3. Post-interview follow-up touches

How many recruiting prospects are needed to get one high-quality interview?

Set a goal to acquire that number of prospects.

How many interviews are needed to get one high-quality pipeline addition?

Set a goal to conduct that number of interviews.

What frequency of follow-up touches are necessary to keep candidates moving forward in your pipeline?

Set a goal to conduct that many touches.

A similar process identifying tasks and outcomes should be done for experienced agent recruiting, as well.

Setting goals at the task level allows you to measure your progress more effectively on a day-to-day basis.

Your initial assumptions on how certain tasks contribute to the end goal may not be correct, but over time true metrics will emerge.

This methodology sets you free to focus on the things you can control rather than beating yourself up for not reaching the end goal.

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