Outreach Basics

So you've found a great candidate - Now it's time to get them into your interview loop. From this lesson, you will:

  • Understand the benchmark for a good response rate when sourcing candidates, with 15% as the target for moving candidates forward in the recruitment process
  • Learn that email outreaches typically yield higher response rates than LinkedIn InMails and why finding a candidate’s personal email can be more effective
  • Discover the advantages of outreach coming directly from an engineering manager rather than a recruiter to significantly increase the likelihood of a response
  • Explore tools and methods for finding candidate emails, including using services like Clearbit and experimenting with Gmail to predict email addresses
  • Gain insights into how personalizing the outreach process by handling initial replies and interactions can make a meaningful impact on recruitment outcomes

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