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Case Study · Financial Services · 18 Months

Recruiting top talent,
at national scale.

A national mortgage lender, one of the top-rated brokers in the United States, needed to hire qualified loan originators quickly across the country. The Deal Zone built and ran the multi-channel outreach engine that delivered the candidates, and the growth.

ClientNational Mortgage Lender
IndustryMortgage / Financial Services
Campaign18 Months · 49 States + DC
110K+
Messages sent across channels
~11%
Average response rate
1,000+
Appointments booked
166%
2-year headcount growth
599
Total employees reached
The Challenge

Hire qualified loan originators, fast, and everywhere.

The client is one of the top mortgage lenders in the United States, licensed in 49 states plus DC. To keep pace with demand, they needed to recruit qualified loan originators quickly and at scale. That's the kind of high-volume, high-quality talent pipeline that's notoriously hard to build in-house.

The role was attractive, with base pay of $125K plus bonus, but reaching the right candidates, starting real conversations, and converting interest into booked interviews required a disciplined, multi-channel engine and live human follow-through.

The Approach

We ran personalized 1-to-1 outreach across email, SMS, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Instagram, and X. Each message opened with a researched, human-sounding introduction and was handed to a live agent the moment a candidate replied.

Email outreach SMS & WhatsApp LinkedIn & social Live agent handling Multi-channel sequencing Appointment booking

The campaign ran for 18 months. A representative email sequence alone sent 47,283 messages at a 12% response rate and booked 453 appointments. A parallel WhatsApp sequence sent 63,193 messages at a 9% response rate and booked 568. Together they drove over 110,000 messages and 1,000+ appointments straight onto the calendar.

By The Channel

Two sequences. One pipeline.

A look at two of the channels that powered the engagement.

Email Sequence

Direct, chess-move outreach

47,283
Messages sent
12%
Response rate
453
Appointments
WhatsApp Sequence

Conversational, mobile-first

63,193
Messages sent
9%
Response rate
568
Appointments
The Results

Compounding headcount growth.

As measured on the company's public employee count over the campaign window.

+21%

6-month growth

Early momentum as the multi-channel engine ramped.

+70%

1-year growth

Sustained pipeline turned into sustained hiring.

+166%

2-year growth

Headcount reached 599 employees on the back of the program.

1,000+

Appointments booked

Qualified candidate conversations delivered to the calendar.

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