We're continuing a Capitalist tradition today - Rating Candidate Voice Mails...
Here's how it works - I've been known to be hard on voice mail. If I am calling a candidate off a resume and get voice mail, I treat it like a freebie. Good energy and kind of dynamic sounding in your voice mail greeting? Cool, I'm more interested than I was when I called. Sound depressed and seem like the whole thing takes too much energy? I'm out - you lost the opportunity. I rate your voice mail - if you are rated 5 or worse, you'll never hear from KD again..
Today's contestant - George Costanza from Seinfeld.... Take a listen and take notes... We're doing a quiz after the clip...
What's your call? Do you 1) Leave a message and encourage George to call you back to set up a phone interview, 2) Leave a message and tell him you want him to set up a time for him to come in (meaning you've skipped the phone screen, so you're obviously impressed with GC's greeting), or 3) Hang up with no message - he's dead to you...
My call? I like the creativity of the voice mail greeting, if I am trying to fill the following positions:
--Graphic Designer
--VP of Marketing
--VP of Operations, Vandelay Industries
--Creative Director, Big Ad Agency
Anything other than that, he's dead to me as a candidate. PS - Don't you hate it when you know the candidate is sitting there listening to your message, and they call you back 10 minutes later?
Shout out to MW at The Career Revolution, alerting me to the availability of the clip....
