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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The Attrition Variables

The Attrition Variables

While these attrition constants still have the greatest influence, there are some emerging attrition variables worth noting. People also tend to leave companies when: They feel like they’re not doing as well as others in their peer group outside the company. They feel like they’re not as far along as they should be at a certain point in life.

The Attrition Constants

The Attrition Constants

If you’re not focusing most of your retention effort on these issues, you’ll miss the mark. If you’re not focusing most of your recruiting effort on exploiting these weaknesses among your competitors, you’re missing the best opportunities.

The Persistence Mindset

The Persistence Mindset

A leader equipped with this mindset can have a profound effect on the life and career of each individual they engage. It works because an agent is getting a real-time glimpse of what it would be like to work on your team. But it only becomes believable when it is persistently applied over time.