Advice for recruiters when leaving a message...

[minestrone]

At least a general location.

At least a general skill set.

Don't mumble your name and who you work for if you work in a loud office.

It is not a competion to say your number as quickly as you can

"Hi, this is mumble mumble here at mumble co, I have a role for you, my number is 02...3, thanks"

Is it a surprise to agents why we do not pick up and do not phone back 95% of the time?

[northernladuk]

Amen to that. All of those happen in the same message far too regularly. Very poor phone etiquette.

To be fair it isn't just agencies though.

[Kryten]

At least a general location.

At least a general skill set.

Don't mumble your name and who you work for if you work in a loud office.

It is not a competion to say your number as quickly as you can

"Hi, this is mumble mumble here at mumble co, I have a role for you, my number is 02...3, thanks"

Is it a surprise to agents why we do not pick up and do not phone back 95% of the time?

I work on phone backs. I am good enough to work on phone backs alone. If they want me, they know where they can phone me. Otherwisem I'm out.

[SandyD]

In the last few years I noticed some agents are using a mobile number or a non 'Blocked' number which made my life so much easier, I can just ring them back from the missed calls list.
The blocked/Unknown number is so annoying... I say all agents should have mobile numbers, or no hidden caller id.

[BoredBloke]

I have to agree with other comments. The voicemail that you have to listen to 3 times before you have managed to get the number is really annoying.

[rob s]

And stop using 'interesting opportunity' to mean 'permie job requiring you to take an effective 60% paycut'.