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Spec-Candidate Email Templates

The outreach play with the highest reply rate in recruitment: the templates, the reasoning behind every line, and the follow-up sequence that goes with them.

Copy any template straight from the page.

Almost every cold email a hiring manager receives asks them for something, their time, a meeting, a slot in the diary. A spec-candidate email offers them something instead, and it's the one thing they might actually want this week.

It's the oldest trick in recruitment, done at scale. The goal is a reply, not a job order.

What's inside

  • The base template, line by line, and why each part is there
  • Three variants worth testing against each other
  • Subject lines that read as internal mail, not marketing
  • Five things that kill these emails, two of them GDPR problems
  • The three-email sequence, and what to do with every reply
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