Hi everyone 👋 I’m excited to be part of this Recruiting Community! My name is Noel O. Kingsley, a Career Sourcing Specialist based in the U.S. I spend my days connecting great talent with opportunities and helping companies discover the right candidates to grow their teams. One thing I’ve noticed in this industry is how quickly the landscape is changing, AI, shifting job markets, and evolving candidate expectations are rewriting the rules of recruiting. That makes me curious: What do you think is the biggest challenge or opportunity in recruiting today, finding the right candidates, keeping them engaged, or retaining them once hired? Looking forward to learning from everyone’s perspective and sharing insights together.

Hi, What key elements should be included in an introductory email to clients when aiming to secure a recruitment contract? Should the focus be solely on asking about their current vacancies or recruitment needs, or is it advisable to also include our rates and terms of service in the initial outreach?

Hey everyone, I've noticed quite a few people in this group are struggling with cold outreach and wanted to provide some value from my experience: Cold outreach in recruitment can feel intimidating at first, but the truth is, recruitment is sales. You’re selling yourself to the prospect, and you’re selling candidates to them too. And in sales, it doesn’t matter how good your “product” is if nobody knows about it. Cold outreach is the bridge and there’s no skipping it, so the faster you get comfortable, the faster you’ll grow. That being said, here are a few things that helped me early on: - Take a deep breath. At the end of the day, you’re talking to people, not “big scary decision makers.” They’re just humans with families, hobbies, and inboxes full of messages. If you go in tense, they’ll feel it. Relaxed energy always lands better. - Keep it short. Your best emails are 3–4 sentences max. The first line should be personalized to them (not your pitch), and the subject line should make them curious enough to click. No gimmicks, just genuine curiosity. - Test & tweak. Your open rate tells you how strong your subject line is. If nobody’s opening, either your subject line needs work or your email/domain isn’t warmed up (spam issue). If opens are good but replies are low, then focus on improving your copy. - Make the CTA light. Instead of asking for a “call this week,” try something simple like “Would it make sense to chat?” or “Open to exploring this?”. It feels less heavy and gets more responses. - Don’t rely only on email. A quick LinkedIn note or even a voicemail drop after your second or third email can make you stand out. Sometimes being visible in more than one channel is all it takes. - Detach from the outcome. Most prospects won’t respond and that’s normal. The goal isn’t to get a “yes” every time, it’s to keep showing up consistently. That mindset shift takes a lot of pressure off. If you’re new to cold outreach, my biggest advice is: Just start. You’ll learn 10x faster by hitting “send” and seeing what happens than by waiting until you think your emails are perfect.

Hi all—I've been struggling to find businesses that are actually in need of a recruitment firm, a lot of businesses I've been reaching out to either aren't looking for any staff atm or have an in house team. and I know this is an issue that people in this group have also been facing. I spent some time working through it last week, and now I have a way to scrape LinkedIn job posts, get the ceo's email of the company that posted it, generate an icebreaker that I can use for my outreach, than add it to my database + my email campaign. Now I know that the people I'm reaching out to are actively searching for new hires, heres how I solved it for less than $20/m: 1. Use make.com to automate the whole process, you can set the automation to happen once per week. So once a week, you get a whole new batch of leads that are all searching for postitions. 2. Setup Apify, and Any mail finder. Apify is what you will use to get all of the data from the job posts, anymail finder will let you find the decision makers email. 3. Make an account with perplexity, I've seen some posts in this group about perplexity so hopefully you already have one setup, but if not its pretty simple to do so. From there you will have to get a perplexity API key, thats how you can connect it to make.com. Perplexity will do research on the company for you and give you an icebreaker so when you send them an email it feels like you have done hours of research. 4. Connect it to your database, this could be a googlesheet or a crm that you are already using. Now, once a week this system that you've made will scrape linkedin for job postings, find you the CEOs email, generate you an icebreaker and add all of this information to your email campaigns and databases. If anything is unclear, let me know. Hope this helps you 🙏

Hi Im looking to expand my network in the nursing industry in germany If you are in germany or have expertise in nurse recruitment and wanna groe together hmu