Comments on: step away from the mobile phone http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/ Insight and opinion from the world of employment. Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:01:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Shally http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-584 Shally Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:23:15 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/#comment-584 I also wanted to share this with you (sent to me from a caring friend who prefers to remain anonymous): http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/04/HNbancellphonespam_1.html Basically what I understand this to mean is that the FCC has lumped in cell-phone spam along with the CAN SPAM Act. Now, keep in mind I don't condone spam of any kind, SMS or email, but I though it worthwhile to mention this as a good counterpoint to my own post. EXCERPT: Commissioners argued mobile-phone spam is harmful because consumers have to pay for the time to delete it (which I do mention in my comments on my blog). Full article: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117274,00.asp I also wanted to share this with you (sent to me from a caring friend who prefers to remain anonymous):

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/04/HNbancellphonespam_1.html

Basically what I understand this to mean is that the FCC has lumped
in cell-phone spam along with the CAN SPAM Act. Now, keep in mind I
don’t condone spam of any kind, SMS or email, but I though it
worthwhile to mention this as a good counterpoint to my own post.

EXCERPT: Commissioners argued mobile-phone spam is harmful because
consumers have to pay for the time to delete it (which I do mention
in my comments on my blog). Full article: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117274,00.asp

]]> By: Shally http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Shally Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:15:58 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/#comment-581 Joel you know I totally respect your opinion and think very highly of you as well, and I agree people do abuse things. but I also wanted to add that recruting is not telemarketing in the same way that telemarketing isn't selling. How do you get permission to contact someone if you don't first contact them? If we were to have to wait for them to contact us, then it wouldn't be called recruiting it would be called waiting. Its just the nature of the business that recruiters frequently have to be the ones to initiate contact. If you strongly feel mobile phones can be used in this way, then I respect your opinion, but I just don't want people to believe there's something wrong with initiating contact. Joel you know I totally respect your opinion and think very highly of you as well, and I agree people do abuse things. but I also wanted to add that recruting is not telemarketing in the same way that telemarketing isn’t selling.

How do you get permission to contact someone if you don’t first contact them? If we were to have to wait for them to contact us, then it wouldn’t be called recruiting it would be called waiting. Its just the nature of the business that recruiters frequently have to be the ones to initiate contact. If you strongly feel mobile phones can be used in this way, then I respect your opinion, but I just don’t want people to believe there’s something wrong with initiating contact.

]]> By: Shally http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/comment-page-1/#comment-580 Shally Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:08:09 +0000 http://www.cheezhead.com/2006/04/17/step-away-from-the-mobile-phone/#comment-580 I agree (and said so on my blog) with your cautionary statement. I think its important to use any and all tools wisely. A badly placed call, or email can also be just as damaging to "employment branding" and there are many documented cases of that on the web. But I do want to add that sending an SMS (or email message) isn't really recruiting. Its an attempt to communicate. You don't want to "pitch" or "recruit" in an 160 characted SMS, or an email, or even a voice mail. The intent is to open communication with certain types of candidates (and especially in Europe where SMS is more accepted than calling). That's it. As a method of professional communication its not something you do over and over like a telemarketer or a spammer. Email campaigns can have 60% and frequently even as much as 80% positive response so even though you may not agree with this method of communication please don't compare it to telemarketing, junk mail or spam which only gets 0-5% response. I agree (and said so on my blog) with your cautionary statement. I think its important to use any and all tools wisely. A badly placed call, or email can also be just as damaging to “employment branding” and there are many documented cases of that on the web.

But I do want to add that sending an SMS (or email message) isn’t really recruiting. Its an attempt to communicate. You don’t want to “pitch” or “recruit” in an 160 characted SMS, or an email, or even a voice mail. The intent is to open communication with certain types of candidates (and especially in Europe where SMS is more accepted than calling). That’s it. As a method of professional communication its not something you do over and over like a telemarketer or a spammer. Email campaigns can have 60% and frequently even as much as 80% positive response so even though you may not agree with this method of communication please don’t compare it to telemarketing, junk mail or spam which only gets 0-5% response.

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