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Find out who is still looking, before a recruiter calls.

A candidate database goes stale faster than any other list a business keeps. Most of the names in it took a job three months ago and nobody has asked.

Recruitment · 9 steps

Recruiters spend a large share of their week re-qualifying a list rather than placing from it. The question is always the same and the answer is usually no.

Meanwhile the candidates who are actively looking are the ones who move fastest, and the delay in reaching them is measured in placements lost.

The flow

Step by step, with the node each one uses.

  1. 01

    Match to the candidate record

    If Existing Lead

    So the call can reference the role they registered for rather than starting from nothing.

  2. 02

    Say why you are calling

    Playback Audio

    Named, specific and short. A vague recruitment call gets hung up on inside four seconds.

  3. 03

    Ask the only question that matters

    Route to IVR

    Still looking, not right now, or take me off the list. All three are useful answers and the third one is the one most systems never capture properly.

  4. 04

    Take an availability date

    Capture Digits

    Four digits, day and month, on the still-looking branch. A recruiter opening that record sees a date rather than a note saying to chase.

  5. 05

    Tag by the answer given

    Manage Tags

    Actively looking, passive, or opted out. The tag is what every later search runs against.

  6. 06

    Move them between lists

    Manage List

    Off the calling list if they asked, onto the active list if they are looking. The list is corrected by the call that discovered it.

  7. 07

    Send the right follow-up

    Add to Email Sequences

    Roles for the active ones, a check-in months later for the passive ones. Chosen by branch, not by memory.

  8. 08

    Put the hot ones straight through

    Route to User

    Anyone actively looking reaches their own recruiter while they are still on the phone, which is the only moment that reliably converts.

  9. 09

    Honour a removal request immediately

    Add to Caller Filter

    Somebody who asks to come off the list comes off it during the call, not when a note gets actioned.

What the flow carries

The variables.

Captured mid-call and readable by every later node, including inside a spoken prompt and inside a webhook body.

${AVAILABLE_FROM}Four digits the candidate keys in
${CANDIDATE_STATUS}Which branch they took, used for tagging and sequencing
Why it works

The recruiter's day starts with a list of people who said yes this week, rather than a list of people who said yes in March.

The opt-out branch is the part worth keeping honest. Handling it in the flow rather than in a note is both the decent thing and the defensible one.

Watch out for
  • Keep the opening under ten seconds and name the role. Recruitment calls have the least patient audience of anything in this list.
  • Do not put the hot branch through to a queue. The value is in reaching a specific recruiter while the candidate is still on the line, so route to the owner.

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