I accepted a job after getting cold called by a recruiter. In terms of email though, the two things that make recruiter emails stand out:
- If the email is actually a properly written job description or other request that doesn't make the person / company sound completely incompetent. (This is probably less than 1% of recruiter emails.)
- If the recruiter seems like a real person then that goes a long way.
The pitch letter from the recruiter wasn't the bog standard "I saw you have these skills, can you hop on the phone?" email: the recruiter didn't just rattle off a list of 'roles and responsibilities', but actually put down a few lines about a specific production challenge that he believed experience I had a previous role could help the team solve.
Having that kind of intel right up front made that first call and the entire interview pretty memorable. The whole time I kept thinking to myself how different this 'technical recruiter' was from so many others I had talked to. Turns out he was a former engineer who on a whim put his name up for a recruiter spot because he wanted to try it out, and got it.
Ended up working at that place for almost six years. Owe a lot of my career development to that team.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 16.3 ms ] thread- If the email is actually a properly written job description or other request that doesn't make the person / company sound completely incompetent. (This is probably less than 1% of recruiter emails.)
- If the recruiter seems like a real person then that goes a long way.
What made it stand out?
The pitch letter from the recruiter wasn't the bog standard "I saw you have these skills, can you hop on the phone?" email: the recruiter didn't just rattle off a list of 'roles and responsibilities', but actually put down a few lines about a specific production challenge that he believed experience I had a previous role could help the team solve.
Having that kind of intel right up front made that first call and the entire interview pretty memorable. The whole time I kept thinking to myself how different this 'technical recruiter' was from so many others I had talked to. Turns out he was a former engineer who on a whim put his name up for a recruiter spot because he wanted to try it out, and got it.
Ended up working at that place for almost six years. Owe a lot of my career development to that team.