Hand-Recruitment: Tricky But Satisfying
Sometimes, for our more difficult projects, we have to amp up our game and personally call our potential experts rather than just emailing worthy candidates. Often we spend several hours each day scouring the Internet to find even just one person who might become a valued consultant for our clients. These difficult projects are, of course, time-sensitive like all the others, so if there’s a note of hysteria or desperate subservience when we reach you on the phone, that’s why.
Well, today is no different; my colleague Elizabeth and I are calling potential corporate banking customers to get professional opinions on the process of choosing a bank for one’s lending/banking needs. And you know what? I’m generally very surprised and touched at how genuinely interested and responsive some people are. I mean, we’re calling people at work, out of the blue, asking them to participate in a market research project that they previously had no interest in (that is, until we called them), yet they’re willing and able! “Set it up for next week!” they say. And just to clarify, these are not individuals who have nothing better to do with their time. These are extremely busy C-level executives that have loads on their plates and yet they’re taking time out of their schedules to speak to us, to share their opinions and insights, to become Knowledge Leaders. So, I really just wanted to say:
THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR KNOWLEDGE LEADERS FOR BEING SO WILLING AND ABLE, FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SHARE YOUR VAST EXPERTISE WITH US AND OUR CLIENTS. Without you, we’d be nothing!
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