{"id":620,"date":"2007-01-31T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/you-can-ask-me-anything-just-email-me\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T13:00:57","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T19:00:57","slug":"you-can-ask-me-anything-just-email-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/01\/you-can-ask-me-anything-just-email-me\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Ask Me Anything &#8211; Just Email Me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently sourcing candidates for a customer with these requirements: technically savvy, results oriented, efficient sales skills with good <strong>phone<\/strong> &#038; writing skills. My interaction with this candidate started via email, which is great because I could get an idea of his written communication skills.<\/p>\n<p>His first emails were to find out a little more about the company and a lot about the position responsibilities. We emailed back and forth several times in which he asked some great questions. After I had answered his questions, he sent an email stating that he was interested in the position and would like to take it to the next step. I emailed him back telling him I had some questions for him and that we would need to set up a time for a phone discussion.<\/p>\n<p>I received this response from him:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s great, go ahead and send me your questions and I will be more than happy to answer them for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay . . . I thought maybe I was not clear or that because he is currently working that it may be difficult for him to get time during the day to talk. So I responded to him by emailing that I would like to <em>talk<\/em> with him and if needed I could make myself available in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>I received an email back almost instantly from him stating that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No, it would be easier for him to do this via email and that I should just fire off the questions to him via email and he would get them back to me in the next day or so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember, this position requires a fair amount of phone activity. Amazing. I have never encountered a sales candidate who would not get on the phone. Needless to say, I passed on the candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently sourcing candidates for a customer with these requirements: technically savvy, results oriented, efficient sales skills with good phone &#038; writing skills. My interaction with this candidate started via email, which is great because I could get an idea of his written communication skills. His first emails were to find out a little more about the company and a lot about the position responsibilities. We emailed back and forth several times in which he asked some great questions. After I had answered his questions, he sent an email stating that he was interested in the position and would like to take it to the next step. 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