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The recruiter blamed their subject line. Rewrote it four times. A/B tested two versions. Sent to 200 candidates. 47% bounced. The problem was never the copy. It was the list. Bad data doesn't just waste time. It makes good recruiters doubt themselves unnecessarily.

4/ The fix isn't a better template. It's verified contact data. Current email. Working phone. Multi-channel. Confirmed. Reach the candidate through a channel that still works — Then worry about what you say. Data quality is outreach strategy. #TalentAcquisition #Sourcing

3/ Here's the real cost: Every bounced email is a candidate you paid to find and couldn't reach. Every dead phone number is a conversation that never happened. Every ignored InMail is a channel you've already overfished. The pipeline isn't dry. The pipes are broken.

🧵 Bounced emails are not a messaging problem. They're a sourcing problem wearing a messaging problem's clothes. And the recruiting industry has been treating the symptom for years. Here's what's actually happening.

Response rates aren't a copywriting problem. The best outreach in the world doesn't work if it's going to: An email they stopped checking. A LinkedIn they log into twice a year. A phone number from a job they left in 2021. Verified contact data is the strategy.

Before you rewrite that outreach template — Check your bounce rate. If your contact data is 18 months old, your open rate isn't low because your subject line is weak. It's low because the inbox doesn't exist anymore. Fix the data first. Then fix the copy. #Sourcing

Your outreach isn't underperforming because your copy is weak. It's underperforming because the email never arrived. Recruiters spend hours perfecting subject lines for addresses that haven't worked in two years. That's not a messaging problem. That's a data problem.

You spent 6 months finding the perfect hire. Then you started the next search from scratch. That profile — their skills, their background, their trajectory — is the most valuable sourcing asset you have. Most teams throw it away every single time. #TalentAcquisition

Every sourcer has had this moment: "I need someone exactly like the person we just hired." Then spent 3 weeks rebuilding a search from nothing. That frustration has a name. And a fix. Candidate cloning. It starts with what already worked. #Sourcing

4/ Most teams have their best hire sitting in the ATS right now. Skills documented. Career path on record. Performance proven. And they're writing a new Boolean string from scratch for the same role. The template exists. Start using it. #TalentAcquisition #Sourcing

3/ Here's why it works: Job descriptions are written by committees. Candidate cloning is written by results. One reflects what someone hopes to find. The other reflects what someone already found and kept. That's not a small difference. That's everything.

🧵 There's a sourcing technique most teams have never tried. It doesn't start with a job description. It doesn't start with a Boolean search. It starts with the best hire you've ever made. It's called candidate cloning. Here's how it works.

Your best hire is already telling you who to hire next. Their skills. Their career path. Their experience pattern. That's your search template. Stop writing Boolean strings from scratch every time. Start cloning what already works. #Sourcing #TalentAcquisition

Most sourcing starts with a job description. The best sourcing starts with your best hire. Find someone great. Use them as the search. Candidate cloning finds who they look like before they apply. Most teams have never tried it. #TalentAcquisition

ATS filters disproportionately reject: Early-career candidates. Career switchers. Nontraditional backgrounds. Not because they can't do the job. Because they don't look like the last hire. Your filter isn't finding talent. It's cloning the past. #TalentAcquisition

Your ATS rejected someone today. Not because they were unqualified. Because they used a different word for the same skill. That's not screening. That's elimination by technicality. #TalentAcquisition