Truth: Your Agents Will Leave You Someday. How Strong Is Your Recruiting Plan?

As with any business owner, you must hire well for your business to succeed. The growth of your brokerage depends on the number and productivity of your agents. Continually recruiting agents—new or seasoned—who are enthusiastic go-getters adds excitement to the entire office and motivates current agents to do better. Having the right recruiting tools and systems ensures that your pipeline of potential agents remains full and you won’t be scrambling to replace production if, in fact, an agent leaves you.

Business Plan And The Numbers

Doing a formal business plan every year isn’t always the first thing on a busy brokers long list of To-do’s. Yet at Weichert, we emphasize the importance of this tool with all our affiliates. Your business plan should include a recruiting plan that should be a constant point of reference for you, not something you do and forget about. You should keep it current with an updated assessment of the brokerage’s needs in terms of agent count. Just adding 10 new recruits a year can substantially increase your gross sales income. Adding 20 a year is even better.

Think about your own plan. Do you have a realistic growth goal for your business? Do you know how many recruits you will need to reach your income goals this year? Knowing your financial goals and how that translates to additional sales and feet on the pavement is critically important in determining the minimum number of agent recruits you need to bring in for your desired profitability goal. Weichert affiliates are taught efficient ways to conduct productive recruiting activities, roll up and review the numbers each week to determine if they are on track to reach their yearly goals and can adjust their strategies if not on target.

Here’s a few tactics you can try to improve your pipeline of potential agent recruits.

Participate In School & Community Recruiting Events

You know that recruits can easily be found at real estate schools or college campuses, especially one that has a real estate program. Be part of recruiting events at these locations. Request to put a recruiting flyer on a bulletin board with a business card pocket to help gain interest in between recruiting events. Check it regularly to keep the pocket constantly filled with cards. Track who responds and from where to gauge the best locations and strategies.

Have Attractive Marketing & Training Materials

Use updated and well-designed marketing materials as recruiting tools. Professionalism is key. Be prepared to show your stuff to potential recruits with modern materials that describe your company culture, your success, the value you offer, and other important information that agents new to your brokerage want to learn. Inexperienced agents will be particularly interested in how you are going to train them to get up to speed and productive. Highlight strongly all the formal training and mentoring programs you have in your brokerage to keep them competitive. Really give them a sense that you will be fully vested in their success.

Promote Online

Let your online presence do some talking for you. Use your website to attract recruits with a career section that tells them why they’d love to work with you! Include information on company culture, photos of agents working and having fun and descriptions of all the great tools, training, sales successes and support every agent receives as part of your brokerage team. Social media works well to search for and solicit potential recruits, especially those more seasoned, who already have active real estate social media profiles.

Use Brand As A Power Tool

Sometimes having the right brand can be a powerful recruiting magnet. No matter how successful your independent brokerage is now, being part of a nationally recognized brand can open doors that accelerate business growth and more easily attracts recruits. Not to mention it often allows you to offer your agents much more than you could on your own.

Host Regular Career Events

One of the most effective activities can be holding regular recruiting events at your office. Promote through email, phone calls and social media. Make sure you have a dynamic presentation, be prepared with takeaway materials, show off your awesome office space and brokerage personality. By the time you’re done, they won’t want to work anywhere else!

Yes, effective recruiting is a big investment, but it is the single most important thing you can do for your brokerage. How do you find time to create the materials and training programs you need and where do you start? That’s where being able to plug into an existing, proven system can help. Companies that affiliate with Weichert, for example, are coached in best practices for recruiting, including effective ways to conduct regular recruiting outreach, hold career events and how to roll up and review the numbers each week to determine if they are on track to reach their yearly goals so they can adjust their strategies as needed. Weichert also provides affiliates with the presentation tools and marketing resources to make that dynamic recruiting presentation and professional impression. Plus, we offer training to get new agents up to speed and working in no time. All that plus national brand recognition which amplifies the attractiveness of your brokerage. All you have to do is implement. How easy is that!

Good systems, smart tactics and regular ongoing activity will keep your recruiting pipeline filled with agents eager to be part of your team. If a recruiting system like Weichert offers is something you’d like your brokerage to plug into, contact us for more information at 877-746-2067 or view weichertfranchise.com.

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