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5 Time-Saving Tips Every Real Estate Agent Recruiter Should Know

Recruitment is no easy feat for any type of business, but there are some unique challenges to recruiting in the real estate industry.

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Recruitment is no easy feat for any type of business, but there are some unique challenges to recruiting in the real estate industry. For one, there’s pretty tight competition among brokerages operating within the same locality. For another, there are different trends that recruiters need to be aware of with regard to agent turnover rates. 

While several industry spectators say that the turnover for real estate agents is high, that doesn’t always translate to ease in recruitment. Moreover, as some brokerages may already know, there are often small windows to recruit experienced agents, especially when the latter have enjoyed years’ worth of success with their current brokerage and are not sure whether they want to risk working for other people.

Knowing these challenges, how can your brokerage firm get agents of top caliber to come to your door in the most expedient way possible? Below are six tips that will help you save time, maximize the effort you put into your recruitment process, and populate your brokerage with happy and ambitious agents.

Find Out What Kind of Talent Your Brokerage Needs

First off, think deeply about the kind of talent you want in your roster considering your brand, your business values, and your targets for growth as a brokerage firm. How many newly licensed agents can you afford to take on, and what kind of training can they expect from you once you onboard them? How many experienced agents do you aim to onboard by the end of this year, and what can you offer them that other brokerages can’t?

The success of your recruitment process depends on your metrics, which are likely not the same as any other firm’s. A targeted effort will not only help you achieve these numbers quickly, but also make sure that you get the reinforcement that your brokerage actually needs. 

Streamline and Fine-Tune Your Recruitment Process

Next, based on what you’ve found out about your company’s needs, streamline your recruitment process so that it can be more consistent at bringing worthy candidates to your doorstep. This includes strategies for first contact, when and how often to follow up on applications, and what tools to use to drive up and manage recruitment across multiple channels.

Consider using tools like Brokerkit agent recruiting scripts to appeal to different candidate demographics, like agents who have recently gotten licensed versus those who have been in the business for several years. You should also take advantage of how easy it is to automate parts of your recruitment method, such as ad placement and background checking for agents, and to pre-record recruitment materials for advertising your firm or conducting pre-application briefings for candidates.

In short, widening your repertoire of recruitment tools and investing in ones that are more up-to-date can help you keep up with the fast pace of the real estate industry and gather the most promising, forward-thinking agents in the shortest amount of time. 

Find the Right Occasions to Actively Recruit New People

Good recruitment practice for real estate is not only an issue of quickly casting a wide net, but also casting that net purposefully to find the kind of fish you want. Be aware of occasions that may yield high recruitment value, such as real estate industry trade fairs or company-sponsored recruitment events.

Save time and make good on your recruitment process by knowing where to put in concerted efforts in terms of staff work. That way, you’re likelier to end up with a good crop of recruits whose abilities you’ll be able to rely on.

Lay Out What You Offer as a Brokerage

The sooner your potential recruits know about what they’re getting into, the quicker they’ll be about committing to their decision of applying to your brokerage. They won’t waste time thinking about whether your brokerage is a good fit for their interests, and you won’t expend additional time or resources repeating the same information.

From the very beginning of your recruitment process, bake in all the details that an agent would want to know about your firm. Ensure that there’s clarity on your commission structures, what agents should do to earn incentives, what their compensation is like, what training opportunities they can expect, and whether they’ll have benefits like flexible work arrangements and insurance.

Even before you interview a single agent, you’ll have already pared it down to the ones that are truly interested in what you have to offer. That means that you and your staff can funnel more time into processes that demand more of your focus, like interviews and onboarding.

Involve Your Top-Performing Agents in the Recruitment Process

Though it’s the recruitment team that’s primarily in charge of looking for fresh blood, other people within the brokerage can help. Why not tap well-performing agents from your existing pool to help recruit other talented and hardworking professionals?

Give your existing agents the choice to join a referral program where they get incentives for finding other agents who are a good fit for your company. Involving some of your brokerage’s best brand ambassadors in the recruitment process may allow you to double your recruitment efforts and quickly bring good people into your roster.

Final Words

It will always take time to find the right people for any business, real estate included. But there are several ways to fine-tune your recruitment process so that you can work smarter with the limited amount of time you have—and, ultimately, end up with agents who are worth the time you invest in them. Get off to a good start with the tips listed above, and fill your brokerage with today’s most promising agents.

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January 28, 2023
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