Anyone using Canned Response in Gmail?

Hi Dien,

Thanks for asking. The course I was referring to is this one. (note: not my affiliate link. Just the way I copied it from my email account)

http://www.appsumo.com/appsumo-hiring-secrets/?rf=emmd

The Basic Process was very Brilliant and designed to:

1. Weed out the people that can't follow instructions. Early on in the process.

2. Save the founder a LOT of Time.


The 4 Basic Phases each contained a Call to Action "Barrier"

Phase #1. A Job Posting

- A fun conversational type job ad describing a day in the life of the role
- Call To Action Barrier was for them to email their LinkedIn and Facebook profile information along with their resumes

* He stated that 90% of respondents didn't do this

Phase #2. A Canned Email Response

- He used Gmail Filters + "Canned Response" to sort and Reply back to respondents

- Filtered messages:

Those messages containing words Facebook and Linked in were filtered like this 1) Skip Inbox 2)Mark as read 3) Apply Label "Job Respondents- Office position 4) Send Canned Response

Messages without these words were just sent to his deleted. He did NOT waste time.

- This Canned Response also contained another "Call to Action Barrier"
which was that he gave a work scenario and asked them how they would handle it.

He then set up a Google form for them to fill in with their answers. They proceeded onto steps 3 and 4 below.

Phase #3. A Google Form

Phase #4. A Personal Interview email

In the Interest of not going beyond the scope of this thread and giving away the entire course. I'll stop there just to keep it on the topic of "Canned Responses"

Here's a brief video tutorial I found of how to set this up (Filtering + Canned Responses).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLG6T...eature=related

Hope that provides a little more detail Dien.

I would highly recommend the course to hear about his mindset and to get actual emails and wording he used. The part on using the Google forms was really good too.

Feel free to email me privately Dien if you have any further questions

Cheers

Duane

Originally Posted by Dien Rice

Hi Duane,

I'd definitely be interested in hearing more details about this... It sounds like a great idea when hiring (at least for certain jobs)!

Best wishes,

Dien