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How to structure and optimize your email outreach campaigns

Finding talent to match the skills and experience needed for a role can be challenging. That’s why it’s critical for recruiters to be able to deliver personalized and well-thought-out email outreach campaigns. If your emails are going to stand out from the rest, it’s important to be thoughtful in your approach to get prospects interested in opening your emails and learning more. Read on for our expert tips on how to structure and optimize your email outreach campaigns.


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Email templates for recruiters - Scale your candidate outreach

Writing thoughtful outreach emails to passive candidates can sometimes be time-consuming and challenging – but it doesn’t have to be. An effective way to scale your candidate outreach is by creating email templates that can be adapted to various outreach campaigns when sourcing candidates for multiple roles. To help you get started, we've put together this guide on how to create an email template library to save you time while scaling your candidate outreach.


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Why a thoughtful candidate sourcing strategy is key to business success

In the past few years, the economic climate has seen rapid changes, which sometimes leads to confusion for businesses looking for clarity on how to build out their hiring goals. Should you slow your hiring, or speed it up? To be successful in any economic climate, you need to find ways to grow and plan for the next wave of hiring. That’s why it’s so important to be actively thoughtful and strategic about your candidate sourcing strategy.


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How to effectively source and engage passive candidates

In our webinar, Sourcing the smart way: Engaging outreach, you’ll learn from sourcing experts at Amperity, Two Chairs and Greenhouse about how to design effective and scalable sourcing campaigns to attract and keep talent engaged.


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How to build a strategic sourcing strategy

Finding and hiring the right people has never been more important than in today’s competitive talent market. When it comes to sourcing candidates, having a strategic sourcing strategy enables you to expand your search, discover quality candidates and create a strong talent pipeline. In this blog, we’ll explore three key sourcing strategies to help you build and optimize your candidate sourcing approach.


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How to research prospects for email outreach

The research and personalization process can be time-consuming when it comes to figuring out how to effectively personalize your email outreach to prospects. We've compiled some key prospecting and research tips in this blog to help you save time while creating thoughtful and personalized emails that engage prospects.


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How to use email personalization to attract great candidates

Have you ever sent (what you thought was) the perfect email to an awesome potential candidate, only to get left on read? Finding great prospects is only half the battle in sourcing – and relatively easy compared to actually connecting with them. To convince prospects that they'd be great candidates for your open roles, you’ll need to spend time personalizing your emails to demonstrate that you crafted them with the recipient in mind.


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How to write effective email subject lines to attract candidates

Email outreach is one of the most effective ways to find and attract top talent, but getting prospects interested in opening those emails is a constant challenge for recruiters. That’s why crafting an email subject line that grabs people’s attention and convinces them to read your email is a vital skill. A strong email subject line can help facilitate conversations with prospects and increase your email open rate.