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A Good Recruiting Email for people Already Employed

1 points by bad_asks ↗ HN
Hi HN. Our startup has had great success in terms of employee quality by poaching employees from other companies.

We want to know, how can we improve our first poaching emails to potential candidates?

What sort of email containing what info/perks/personal attention would get YOUR attention, as an engineer/developer, from a prospective new employer?

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AnimalMuppet
I don't think I'd use the term "poaching" for what you're doing. I think of poaching as more trying to hire employees of a direct competitor, as opposed to trying to hire people who are currently employed and didn't initiate contact with you.

What would get my attention? Maybe work from home. How long your runway is. Whether you're getting any traction with whatever you currently have available. Whether I can still have a work/life balance, even though you're a startup. And only then salary plus a cut of the action.