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Leveraging AI for Hyper-Personalized Candidate Outreach: A Step-by-Step Guide
Best AI provider for candidate outreach Recently, Google unveiled Bard, a new rival to ChatGPT. As an AI enthusiast, I couldn't resist taking it for a spin. While Bard's internet access capability intrigued me, a feature that ChatGPT lacks, I found the quality of its responses somewhat bad, clearly ChatGPT is significantly better for now. However, this didn't deter me. Instead, it fueled a dream many of us recruiters share: leveraging ChatGPT to craft the most effective outreach messages, incl
Crew goes behind the scenes of what it takes to win at talent in Web3
Recruiting top talent for web3 companies can be a challenging task. Since the game is different from hiring in Web 2.0, the best in the business has managed to stake out some guiding principles for winning at talent in Web 3.0. In this special piece, we managed to gather insights from some of our favorite Web3 founders to share their magic. As a bonus, we also added the guests’ favorite questions to ask during job interviews (see below). Founders, Web3.0 Talent Acquisition enthusiasts, you sh
Recruiting outreach: 10 Tips on how to write emails that get replies (including templates)
Once you have found the right talent to reach out to and have their personal email, you don't want to waste this asset by sending a bad email or message and getting zero replies. At Crew, our clients send A LOT of LinkedIn Messages and emails, and the data is clear, the ones who get more replies and interests do 2 key things : * They personalize their messages. * They follow up, at least 3 times after the 1st message. Which makes sense, again best talents receive a lot of emails daily. Grea
How to find personal email addresses, when sourcing candidates
After finding the best candidates you were looking for, based on a very thoughtful sourcing strategy, in the right platforms (Linkedin, Github, Dribbble...), you now want to contact them. To do so, email is often the best option out there. But it's not always easy to find talent's emails. And as a candidate, it's always confusing and uncomfortable to receive emails from a recruiter into your current job's inbox. In fact, 79% of candidates do prefer receiving emails in their private/personal emai
Talent sourcing: How and where to find the perfect candidates across the web
By now, you have conducted the perfect Kick-off Meeting, which helped you build a precise Talent Mapping. You know exactly what kind of talent you are looking for, and which keywords will help you find them. It’s now time to start the search phase. 👇Find links to each platform sourcing guide below Usually, the first instinct is to search on LinkedIn, because: * All talents are on LinkedIn, right? At least in tech. * If you search well, you’ll find all talent that match your criteria * May
3 fast ways to find the best Product Designers on Dribbble
1/ X-Ray search on Google You can the same technic as here, but this time applied to Dribbble. You can try commands like : * site:dribbble.com -inurl:(followers|type|members|following|jobs|designers|players|buckets|places|skills|projects|tags|search|stories|users|draftees|likes|lists) -intitle:(following|likes) -"Hire Us" As usual, should you need to * Add a skill, you only need to add “Mobile” for example to the command site:dribbble.com -inurl:(followers|type|members|following|jobs|des
5 tips to source software engineers on StackOverFlow
5 steps to quickly find the best software engineers on GitHub
4 easy ways to source talent on Twitter
5 steps to easily source talent on Linkedin
X-ray Search: How to use Google to accurately find talent, anywhere on the Web
Talent mapping: how to continuously map out the market to spot top talents around you (including template)
How to write job descriptions that convert (with examples)
The secret to a successful employee referral program
Build a sourcing strategy that lands you top talent
How to build a bulletproof recruiting scorecard (including template)
How we centralized all ToDos in Notion, to level up our team’s execution (+template)
5 tips to ace your next Recruiting Kickoff Meeting (+template)
4 tips to hire like the bests
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