Hishem AzzouzHost Of Recruitment Mentors Podcast

Phone First Approach to Recruitment Always Wins

Name: Phone First Approach to Recruitment Always Wins
Uploaded: 2025-07-02T16:01:39+00:00
Duration: 35 s
Channel: Hishem Azzouz
Description: In this monologue, the speaker explains how they built their recruiting desk by adopting a phone‑first strategy. Each day they dedicated the morning to…

2 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains how they built their recruiting desk by adopting a phone‑first strategy. Each day they dedicated the morning to 4‑5 business‑development calls to generate new opportunities and the afternoon to 4‑5 candidate calls to engage talent. They meticulously tracked the number of dials made and the total hours spent on the phone, consistently spending four to five hours daily on calls. The speaker emphasizes a love for conversation, viewing the role as a privilege to talk to people all day, while acknowledging that administrative tasks are still required but secondary to the phone‑centric workflow.

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When I was building out my desk, it wasn't about anything other than speaking to as many people as possible and building out my network. So it was literally 4 to 5 BD calls in the morning and then 4 to 5 candidate calls in the afternoon. Like, I used to actually track it, like, how many dials did I make today and how many hours did I spend on the phone? And every single day I'd always be the one that was like 4 or 5 hours every single day on the phone. Really? Every day. I just love talking to people. I always say, like, my job's so good because I get paid to talk to people all day. Like, how lucky am I? And obviously I have to do the admin and stuff associated with it, but like, generally speaking, I'm phone-first approach. So that's That's pretty much what I did, and I still do.