Crafting a great recruiting email is part art, part science. If you're building your team and are not sure how to best reach out to folks, take a page out of this book to help get you started.
This always seems the least personal (from Color):
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Hi ▬▬▬ ,
I hope you're staying safe and healthy during these unprecedented times.
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Do you really? I'm not. My dog died, my best friend died of Covid and how long does it take for something to become precedented.
If I send my resume can you reply with a good therapist? Please contact me, I'm so lonely.
Curious to hear:
- For those regularly writing recruiting emails -- what do you make sure to include?
- For those receiving them -- what makes you want to reply?
@sarah_goomar As someone who receives them, Talk to me like you talk to a friend.
To me, in this context, good copy is this email I received for a podcast interview - "Hi, I found you on [xyz] site. This is what we we do. Are you interested?"
👋 Hi, Product Hunt! I'm Anvisha, cofounder at @Doverhq and one of the creators of the Great Recruiting Emails E-booklet.
Why did we make this? We all know how it feels to receive spammy, poorly worded, or unpersonalized emails feel — not great.
And, if we're lucky, we know what it feels like to receive one where you feel seen, bought into a company's mission and values, and excited about the role's potential!
At Dover, we're helping our customers find and engage the best people for their team. After working with 150+ companies, we've honed in on what sets great outreach apart from the bad. It's ultimately about being thoughtful about your whole candidate experience, which includes making your first touch point a good one.
At Dover, we received a ton of great examples from candidates who were contacted by companies like Robinhood, Facebook, and Stripe. 🏆 We put them all into a booklet for hiring managers and recruiters to reference when they need help finding the right words to say.