Tips For Agents

[Epiphone]

If you're an agent and you're leaving a voicemail here are some handy hints:

Speak clearly.
Say your name very clearly.
Say your company very clearly too.
Give a rough indication of why you're calling. "I have a role" is useless. Of course you have a role, it's why you exist.
Rattling off your phone number at light speed means I have to rewind the message many times and then I get annoyed.

Add your handy tips for agents below. Are you an agent? Add your tips for contractors. Let's all get along

[Spacecadet]

Handy tips for contractors:

Answer the ******* phone

[NickFitz]

Handy tips for contractors:

Answer the ******* phone

I never answer my phone unless I know who's calling and want to speak to them. Agents and anybody else can leave a message; if their errand actually justifies spoken communication I'll call back.

99% of the time there's either nothing to say ("permanent role for a SNOBOL specialist in the Outer Hebrides, experience of sheep dips an advantage") or communication by email would be more appropriate.

[doodab]

Handy tips for contractors:

Answer the ******* phone

This isn't always possible or appropriate behaviour.