"Always have the ping come from a non-recruiter," is a great point, and key to pushing your response rates over the top.
Before starting https://www.mightyspring.com, which reduces the need for this tactical dance all together, I was a full-time technical recruiter. Often I found that if it was especially important to get ahold of a particular person, I could increase my chances by removing my email signature (which contained my title). Same logic, of course.
Traditional recruiting (cold calls/emails) has jumped the shark. Signal-to-noise ratios are poor, causing prospective recruits to assume messages are spam/trash.
It's not that these people aren't interested in new opportunities — they are! — but only opportunities that match their specific, mostly unspoken, criteria. As someone on the sending side of a cold email, you're generally not privy to this criteria.
People should have a truly safe way to tell the world, "I want to hear about opportunities from Stripe", without risking their current job in any way. We make this possible at Mighty Spring and call it "Passive Job Search".
> ... but only opportunities that match their specific, mostly unspoken, criteria. As someone on the sending side of a cold email, you're generally not privy to this criteria
You are thinking about the above average recruiters. My resume and linkedin have a clear "note to recruiters" at the top where I try to articulate the criteria and explain why. For example I say small companies/startups. Yet 95% of the recruiter emails I get show they haven't looked at the note at all. Fortunately having such a note makes it easy for me determine if the recruiter has done any work.
Before starting https://www.mightyspring.com, which reduces the need for this tactical dance all together, I was a full-time technical recruiter. Often I found that if it was especially important to get ahold of a particular person, I could increase my chances by removing my email signature (which contained my title). Same logic, of course.
Traditional recruiting (cold calls/emails) has jumped the shark. Signal-to-noise ratios are poor, causing prospective recruits to assume messages are spam/trash.
It's not that these people aren't interested in new opportunities — they are! — but only opportunities that match their specific, mostly unspoken, criteria. As someone on the sending side of a cold email, you're generally not privy to this criteria.
People should have a truly safe way to tell the world, "I want to hear about opportunities from Stripe", without risking their current job in any way. We make this possible at Mighty Spring and call it "Passive Job Search".