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Thanks for the post, really usefull. But what is the general response rate to this kind of emails, does anyone has any stats?
by lgmspb 12y ago
Thanks for the post, really usefull. But what is the general response rate to this kind of emails, does anyone has any stats?
- gdb 12y agoI'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%.
- lgmspb 12y agoThat is quite impressive
- opendais 12y agoThat 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.
- gdb 12y agoGuess you're one of the remaining 20-10% :).
- opendais 12y agoHaha, you'd never send me one of those emails so we'll never know. <3
- mason55 12y agoRemember that his emails are coming from Stripe. If you're recruiting for generic unknown startup expect your response rates to be lower.
- opendais 12y agoI don't do recruiting and I don't work for a startup. ;) But this is true.
- jaegerpicker 12y agoThat'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 12y agoTo 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 12y agoYeah, that is true. I believe company name may play a HUGE role in the response rate.
- beat 12y agoThanks, gdb. I'm totally gonna plagiarize you when I need to send cold emails. :)
- objclxt 12y agoIt's pretty high. I normally completely ignore generic recruiting e-mails that have made no effort to find out more about me. If someone's gone to the effort of looking into my work in detail I'll normally repay the kindness by replying. Case in point, a few months ago Udacity sent me an e-mail which went in some detail about a blog post I'd written, some of my Stack Overflow answers...it was pretty clear the person writing had actually taken the time to read some of my stuff, so even though I wasn't looking at the time I wrote back to thank them. As other people have pointed out, this also works the other way round. I actually 'reverse cold-recruited' an interview out of Stripe a year ago using the same methods, just applied from the perspective of the job hunter rather than the recruiter.