“How often should I message a passive candidate?” is a question frequently asked in the recruiting industry. Talent sourcers are responsible for sourcing external leads, which often involves reaching out to passive candidates who may not be actively seeking new opportunities. However, there is a fine line between effective outreach and spamming candidates. To…
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To successfully recruit candidates, engagement is key. Recruiters must target potential candidates and send them a message that creates interest in job openings. Therefore, mastering mail merge is crucial for long-term success in sourcing. The significance of recruiters using mail merge effectively cannot be overstated. By personalizing messages and automating outreach efforts, recruiters can improve…
The release of ChatGPT has made recruiters aware of its potential for outreach and mass messaging. With this Google Sheets extension, you can quickly generate highly customized emails. I was shared a post that Alfie Marsh created about generating sales emails using an extension and chatgpt (I’ve included his screenshots below). In summary, I took…
Recruiters often overlook the potential leads within their company’s ATS systems, but now is a good time to review these systems for old applicants, as many companies are experiencing layoffs and hiring freezes. It’s an ideal time to create a future prospecting talent pipeline for 2023. It is important to review applicants in…
Compensation is the main factor driving employee career choices in 2022. Especially in IT, no surprise there — are too many open positions and a big shortage of candidates. The overall number of advertisements for tech jobs in 2021 was nearly double the number for 2019 or 2020, while the number of specialists remained almost…
Nowadays, most recruiting communication and correspondence starts online, and that presents new challenges over more traditional forms of outreach, like cold-calling. Communication and engagement have vastly evolved within the past 5 years. More than ever candidates communicate on social media and other channels online. So, it’s more important than ever to grab the attention of…
Very Fast is an efficient tool that automatically populates recruiter template messages using a person’s social media profile data. It can be used on platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. After selecting a template and auto-populating it, messages can be sent via email, InMail, or direct message. I had the opportunity to try out…
What separates the average recruiter from a top producer? The answer is of course having qualified candidates. In order to have qualified and engaged candidates in your pipeline you first must source and engage them over an initial message. The outreach message can start in an inmail, email, or text message. Sourcing comes down to…
SourceWhale replaces all the sourcing tools you currently use, delivers personalized automated outreach and follow-ups, and provides detailed analytics throughout your recruiting process. Eliminate the need for multiple sourcing tools with SourceWhale, the comprehensive recruiting solution that offers personalized automated outreach and follow-ups, as well as in-depth analytics throughout your recruitment process. I recently had…
Have you ever sent a fantastic recruiter email to a passive candidate never to hear anything back? Writing a well thought out email that calls out the candidate experience and interest takes a lot of time and effort for a recruiter. Maybe this thought crossed your mind while waiting patiently for a response? Maybe…
As a recruiter, outreach and follow-up are at the core of your position, but they both involve a lot of tedious, manual, monotonous labor in order to do it right. Fortunately, lots of “secret” tools are out there that could help take away some of that touch work. Mail merge from Microsoft Word or Excel…
Looking to write the perfect recruiting cold call email? There are six elements you should consider critical when writing an email to a passive candidate. Recruiters need to spend the time to craft a message that is unique and personalized for reach lead. You will only have a few seconds before that lead is either…
Creating email drip campaign is an important factor within recruiting. Recruiters have been recognizing its importance copying the concept from the sales industry. The Sales industry have innovated this concept and slowly improved it within the past few years. Recruiters can now fully automate an email sequence when prospecting and engaging a new candidate. There…
Last week, I attempted a unique approach for my email campaign targeting developers. The message was written in a programming language and asked recipients to respond and fill out a form if they were interested. If they were not, they were given the option to either provide a referral or save my contact information for…
A Talent Sourcers day is filled with searching and finding active leads for your open requisitions. It takes an immense amount of time and energy to find someone’s corporate email address. Thankfully, there’s a great extension tool that offers an all-in solution to finding and engaging leads over email called Snovio. The extension has over…
A big part of sourcing in the current market is reaching out to passive candidates. There doesn’t seem to be any sign that this will change soon. Job markets that favor candidates are not the best when you are hoping for qualified applicants to apply to your job postings. To capture the attention of…
This post was inspired by Holly Mallowes’ presentation at SourceCon, and aims to delve deeper into her suggestion for finding and verifying corporate emails. In some industries, the most effective way to reach a lead is through their corporate email, but what do you do when you can’t find it? There are several options for…
As a Recruiter, it’s important to stay connected to email at all times. However, constantly checking and responding to emails, even outside of normal working hours, can be a bad habit. I found a solution to this problem by implementing an email hack several months ago, which has helped me to limit my email checking…
I recently discovered this sourcing hack while playing around with text messaging. You can send a text message through an email account. This simple yet highly useful hack could be life changing for recruiters who have been relying on expensive text messaging platforms to reach candidates. Candidates may prefer text messages or email for…