Updated for 2020: Tips, Tricks, & Recommendations for Messaging Passive Talent

We’re re-publishing the Definitive Guide for Email Outreach, with updated data, at a time of great uncertainty in the market. But outreach as a recruitment concept might be more important than ever right now. Your reqs may be on hold, and recently open positions may have been cut entirely. Yet we can’t think of a better time to be focusing on human relationships—initiating conversations and building pipelines of talent that might be interested in coming to work for you when hiring ramps up again. At that point, those outreach labors will pay off in a ready talent pool that felt seen by your company in a time of crisis.

The team at Gem re-analyzed over a million outreach emails—sent from thousands of sourcers and recruiters—and compiled a set of best practices. In this guide you'll see updated metrics on:

  • Reply rates per sequence stage
  • The right sequence cadence
  • Best subject line tokens
  • The right time to reach out by role (with new roles: Product, Design, and Data)
  • Token combinations with messaging


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