by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting Most real estate recruiters and hiring managers view recruiting as a transaction. This only makes sense–we get a great sense of satisfaction (and…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting I recently spoke with a hiring manager who was contacted by a recruiting prospect he’d interviewed four months earlier. Early in the conversation,…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting Individuals with entrepreneurial tendencies usually make good real estate agents. Yesterday, I identified four traits to help you quantify this nebulous idea. With…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting If you had to boil the real estate position down to one trait that predicts whether a person will be successful, what trait…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting Jobvite recently published their annual recruiting benchmark report. The report synopsizes the employment behaviors of more than 50 million jobseekers. Here is some…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting Tom Ferry recently published a list of 26 activities that make being a real estate agent hard. It’s not an exhaustive list, but…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting A busy real estate manager is under constant attack from the urgent needs of clients, agents, and staff members who want their problems…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting It’s part of human nature to want to be noticed by those around you. As you know, much of social media plays on…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting If you have a headache, you can take ibuprofen to alleviate the pain. But the pain is not being caused because your body…

by Ben Hess, Managing Director, ThirdPool Recruiting What do Shakespeare, Dickens, Tolstoy, Picasso, Monet, Bach, Mozart, Wagner, Schubert, Brahms, and Dostoyevsky all have in common? They produced far more content…