[pandaman]

I get a lot of recruiters insisting on calling me instead of e-mailing their vacancies. I figure they aim for the same effect as with sales techniques described in this article. However, I am not a native English speaker and these calls end even faster than an e-mail conversation.

It's much easier to decline in a foreign language than in your own. All the emotional cues get filtered through the language barrier and even if I understand them perfectly they do not bear any direct impact.

I suspect I am not the only one so I'd advise people to adjust their cold calling strategies accordingly. It might be worth to have sales calls in your target's native tongue even if you are not fluent or switch to e-mail in such a case.