On: Startup advice: cold recruiting

[gdb]

I've gotten about a 80-90% response rate to the template I show in the post. With a more naive template, it was often more like 10-20%.

[jaegerpicker → gdb]

That's a pretty great template, I get at least 5 emails a week (usually a little more) and I try to reply to them just because you never know when the market could change and you need contacts to get a job. That said it's usually a week later that I reply that I'm not interested but thanks for thinking of me but an email like yours would get an immediate reply.

[Swizec → gdb]

To be honest, I'd be far more inclined to reply to an email from Stripe (a company I recognise/like) than most other cold mail.

Also the advice about including a specific actionable time to make the next step is golden. Telling people exactly what you want converts best in most scenarios.

[lgmspb → Swizec]

Yeah, that is true. I believe company name may play a HUGE role in the response rate.

[beat → gdb]

Thanks, gdb. I'm totally gonna plagiarize you when I need to send cold emails. :)

[opendais → gdb]

That is pretty impressive. I guess more people respond to cold email/calling than I would have thought.

Personally, I always click spam on that kind of thing unless I've shown somewhere that I'm actively searching.

[mason55 → opendais]

Remember that his emails are coming from Stripe. If you're recruiting for generic unknown startup expect your response rates to be lower.

[opendais → mason55]

I don't do recruiting and I don't work for a startup. ;)

But this is true.

[gdb → opendais]

Guess you're one of the remaining 20-10% :).

[opendais → gdb]

Haha, you'd never send me one of those emails so we'll never know. <3

[lgmspb → gdb]

That is quite impressive