| name | Candidate Outreach Personalizer |
| description | Drafts short, personalized recruiting outreach and InMail messages to a passive candidate from their public professional profile. Use when sourcing or contacting a passive candidate, drafting an InMail or LinkedIn sourcing message, or personalizing recruiting outreach from a profile URL or profile summary. Do NOT use when writing sales or founder cold email to prospects — use cold-email-craft instead. |
Candidate Outreach Personalizer
Draft a short, honest, easy-to-decline recruiting message that earns a reply because it is clearly about this candidate and this role.
Workflow
- Read the candidate's public professional profile. Extract only job-relevant, candidate-published facts: role history, projects, talks, published writing, tech stack. Discard anything personal or unconfirmed.
- Pick exactly one concrete, professionally relevant hook (a specific project, talk, article, or stack choice). One genuine anchor beats three generic compliments and avoids a creepy over-familiar tone.
- Write the opener: in two sentences, connect their demonstrated experience to the actual work of this role. State the level and scope honestly; do not inflate the company or opportunity.
- State who you are, the company, and that this is a recruiting message. Include real specifics on location/remote and a pay range where required.
- Close with one low-commitment ask ("open to a 15-minute chat?") and an explicit, costless way to decline or stay in touch.
- Output the draft for a human recruiter to review and send. Flag any detail you could not confirm is public or that is sensitive or non-professional.
Quality bar
- Under 120 words, one hook, one ask.
- The hook is specific enough that the message could not be sent unchanged to anyone else.
- The candidate could decline in one line at no social cost.
- No claim about the company, role, or a referral that is not literally true.
Do NOT
- Do not reference personal social media, photos, family, health, or anything outside professional work.
- Do not infer or act on protected characteristics (age, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion) to decide whom to contact or what to write.
- Do not use guilt, urgency, false scarcity, or fake mutual connections.
- Do not include any detail you cannot confirm the person published in a professional context.
- Do not auto-send; this drafts only.
