The Recruiting Message Every New Agent Needs to Hear

by | May 30, 2025

A few years ago, I worked with one of my kids on a student loan and had the opportunity to interact with the finance company, SallieMae.

After three months of back-and-forth communication with their sales and customer service functions, I could not be more impressed.

While they masterfully wove together the use of email, text, video, and web technology to outline and execute the education loan, the most impressive component of the process was their unwavering focus on a single underlying objective.

This objective was summed up in the first line of an email I recently received:

Thank you for letting us help to make your dream of education a reality.

Recruiters and hiring managers would be wise to adopt this perspective.

For a new agent, your first and most important objective is to help your recruiting prospect’s dream of having a successful real estate career become a reality.

Thank you for letting me help make your dream of establishing a real estate career a reality.

This objective should drive how you communicate, interview, negotiate, follow-up, onboard, and perform every other recruiting task.

It should taint everything you do and be what prospects remember about working with you.

 

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Creating Pacts to Avoid Distraction

Creating Pacts to Avoid Distraction

Notice the two parts to Nir’s formula: a pre-commitment and an external force to keep you accountable to that commitment. For recruiting setting goals and time-blocks in your schedule is not enough. Most people need some kind of external accountability, as well.

Look for Individuals Who Want to be Measured

Look for Individuals Who Want to be Measured

It’s not that people with a growth mindset don’t experience failure—they just see failure as an opportunity to learn new things, to be challenged, and to experience curiosity. This is an important topic to cover during interviews and follow-up conversations with your prospects. If you find someone who likes being measured, you’ve likely found someone who will push through the inherent failures of growing a real estate business and experience long-term success.