{"id":145,"date":"2006-06-30T15:11:47","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=145"},"modified":"2006-06-30T15:27:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T20:27:03","slug":"anecdote-im-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/anecdote-im-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Anecdote &#8211; I&#8217;m Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">It&#8217;s a Friday before a long weekend so let&#8217;s go with an anecdote.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Just to give you a little background &#8211; I had previously talked with this applicant and allowed him to set the time for our phone screen (2 days later).  I called him at the set time, reintroduced myself and reminded him of the reason for our call.  He quickly cut me off with this comment: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Can you call back in an hour or two because I am busy at the moment?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">He then said thank you and hung up before I could respond.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">To top it off, this sales position was for a long sales cycle, relationship sale.  Needless to say, that was not the type of approach we desired for this position.  However, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">my curiosity for this train wreck was piqued so I called the candidate about 2 hours later to see if he was available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">I received the same response from him that he was busy and again asked that I call him back at another time.  I didn&#8217;t call him back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Absolutely true &#8211;  a few days later I received an email from him asking why I did not call him back.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a Friday before a long weekend so let&#8217;s go with an anecdote. Just to give you a little background &#8211; I had previously talked with this applicant and allowed him to set the time for our phone screen (2 days later). I called him at the set time, reintroduced myself and reminded him of the reason for our call. He quickly cut me off with this comment: Can you call back in an hour or two because I am busy at the moment? He then said thank you and hung up before I could respond. To top it off, this sales position was for a long sales cycle, relationship&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/anecdote-im-busy\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-2l","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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