Reopening Recruiting

by | May 19, 2020

You’ve heard much about businesses emerging from lockdown and making plans to compete in the post-Covid world.

No doubt much of your attention has been focused on helping your agents do the same.

While getting your business up and running again is the top priority, don’t forget to dedicate some time to recruiting.

Recruiting is the classic important, but not urgent, activity and recruiting tasks will lie dormant week after week without some proactive attention.

Part of the resistance you’re feeling is an oversized sense of start-up inertia.

Somehow your brain knows it could be several months until you experience the payoff of today’s efforts, so the rationalization to delay starts making sense.

How do you overcome this inertia?

Set a start date to reopen recruiting.

Let your accountability partners know about your commitment, and then publicize the start date with your agents and others in your office.

Prep for your opening, and when the day comes—get busy.

 

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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.