This phone setting could cost you your career
Rick Weaver
Award-winning Senior Recruiter | National Talent Acquisition Specialist in Executive Search and Management Recruiting
We all have had too many bothersome calls from someone trying to sell us an extended warranty, lower the interest on our credit cards, or invest in a sure financial windfall profit opportunity. To eliminate these calls, many products have been developed to assist a phone’s owner with the opportunity to automatically block them.
These products can be very good at stopping unwanted calls but, unfortunately, they do not know who really is an unwanted caller. Typically, they work off the contact list in the owner’s phone book or contact list.
When one is looking for a new job they need to be able to be contacted by a future employer. The first call from the recruiter will likely not be in one’s contact list, therefore the applicate will miss the call.
Think to yourself, “What good is it putting my phone number on my resume if the employer cannot get in touch with me?†The answer, the recruiter will just move on to another candidate.
Consider this before you install and/or turn on a Call Blocking service.
About the author:
Rick Weaver has half a century’s experience in leadership development in retailing. He founded Max Impact Corporation, a leadership and business development consultancy company in 2002. His major accomplishments include working himself from stock clerk to director at a Fortune 50 retail chain and building a $40MM+ construction company in under 5 years. Today Max Impact offers staffing services as a franchisee of Patrice & Associates providing Executive Search, Management Recruiting, and Contract Staffing services.