I am the broker and owner of Austin Texas Homes, LLC. We currently have about 14 agents licensed with our company, and I have hired a few additional agents recently that are due to start this month and next month. One of these new agents with our company is a member here at ActiveRain and she contacted me because of my profile and blog.
I also wrote a post awhile back which discussed the fact that I was looking for agents. While it didn't generate anything directly, the process of writing it helped me to better clarify my thoughts for an ad that I placed on Yahoo HotJobs. In the ad, which is relatively long and allows links, I referenced this post of mine, which was my first featured post on AR back in August 2007:
View from the broker's desk - what makes a good agent?
I also included this line in the ad:
Please note that "sense of humor" is on my list. Don't contact me if you are missing this gene, because I can virtually guarantee that we won't get along. :-)
Interestingly, almost everyone that has interviewed with me as an agent has mentioned this tidbit.
I learned how to make my writing interesting and compelling (and transparent) by blogging here on ActiveRain, so I am thankful for this experience.
If you are interested in seeing the entire ad, here it is:
I hope this is helpful for those of you who are actively involved in recruiting. Thanks!