Cold Call Challenge: staffing and recruiting

Can you win the job order from a hiring manager who already uses two agencies?

Cold-call a plant HR manager before the fall ramp, a warehouse VP who says your markup is too high, a nurse manager who hires direct or a controller who says to call when there are openings. Earn the meeting in 3 minutes.

  • 3 minutes, live voice (or text chat if your mic is busy)
  • AI hiring managers from real staffing desks: manufacturing HR, warehouse operations, a hospital unit and finance
  • Scored 0 to 100 with coaching that quotes your own lines
  • Share your score, challenge a teammate, climb the weekly leaderboard

Why practice now: BLS counts 2.49 million US temporary help jobs in September 2026 (preliminary), down 21% from the March 2022 peak of 3.16 million. Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, series CES6056132001, seasonally adjusted.

How it works

One call. One goal. Book the meeting.

1 · Pick a buyer

Choose your opponent

Pick an industry and a difficulty. Every buyer has a company, a personality and the objections they always use.

2 · Make the call

Three minutes, out loud

The buyer picks up busy and guarded. Earn the next 30 seconds, find a real problem, handle the pushback and ask for a time.

3 · Get scored

A scorecard you can share

Opener, discovery, objection handling and the next-step ask, with coaching on the exact lines you said. The call itself stays private.

The buyers

Four hiring managers. Four ways to say no.

Every company and person is fictional. Each buyer has a personality and the objections they always use.

Beginner

Denise Kowalski

HR Manager, Lakeshore Molded Components

Adds temporary machine operators and packers every fall and is short on second shift every peak.

Intermediate

Paul Whitaker

Controller, Hartwell Supply Co.

A staff accountant goes on leave next month and month-end close already runs late.

Advanced

Ray Castellano

VP Operations, Tri-Point Logistics

Peak season doubles his warehouse headcount, and he thinks every agency sells the same temps.

Advanced

Angela Ruiz

Nurse Manager, St. Brendan Regional Hospital

Open RN and CNA shifts, a push to cut contract labor, and HR owns every vendor contract.

This week

Leaderboard

Best score per person this week. Display names only.

Full leaderboards: global, industry and company

Keep going

Three free calls a week not enough?

For you

Practice Solo · $19/mo

20 scored practice calls a month against every buyer, so you walk into real calls warm.

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For your team

Practice Team · $299/mo

Up to 10 reps, a private team leaderboard, scenarios about your product and readiness for the manager.

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