Intake Calls Are Interviews

Recruiting Intake Calls (aka Hiring Kickoff Calls)

Recruiting Intake Calls (aka Hiring Kick-Off Calls) are one of the most important steps in the recruiting and hiring process. Intake calls help recruiters and talent partners discover what a hiring manager really wants. Recruiters ask the hiring manager key questions to learn about what’s unique, what’s exciting, and what criteria will distinguish good candidates from great candidates. It’s essential for recruiters to understand how to pitch the job and how to filter good candidates from great candidates during the recruiter phone screens.

Using Honeit for Intake Calls

Watch the tutorial above on conducting Intake Calls and creating Audible Job Descriptions in seconds to ensure clear communication between recruiters, account managers, sourcers, recruiting leads, and even passive candidates. What questions should recruiters ask hiring managers during intake calls?

Why is the job open?
What problems will this person solve?
What’s the day-to-day look like?
What teams will this person work with?
What are the key skills for the role?
What does success look like?
What’s the career trajectory?

Interactive Job Descriptions:

After an intake call with a hiring manager, recruiters can create Interactive Job Descriptions by selecting key soundbites from the conversation. Showcase diverse hiring managers to attract diverse candidates and increase response rates. Audible Job Previews help attract passive candidates, increase response rates and allow job seekers to meet the hiring manager earlier in the recruiting process.

Intake Calls and Recruiter Intelligence:

Intake calls are full of recruiting insights. But these conversations are usually lost, with only scribbled notes as the output. Honeit helps recruiters capture recruiting intelligence from intake conversations, to share with fellow Recruiters and Sourcers, and to create audible job previews, by sharing a few highlights from the intake call. Here is a screenshot of ‘recruiting intelligence’ captured from a natural intake call with a hiring manager.