Agency
Candidate Brief
As an agency recruiter, you need to simultaneously sell candidates on
opportunities and sell clients on candidates. Based on interviews with
recruiters like yourself, we’ve developed an email template to help clients
understand why you are recommending a candidate. We’ve included
both an example and a template that you can use in whole or modify.
This template is based on a couple of best practices, including:
Focus on the top technical
requirements instead of trying
to cover all requirements and
related experiences in a brief.
Document specific examples
of projects and interests from
the combination of resume and
social data.
Address head on any
negatives that the client
might find when looking over
the candidate’s information.
Explain what attributes of the
candidate make up for any
noted downsides.
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RECRUITING FIRM TO HIRING MANAGER
SUBJECT: Potential Candidates for DevOps Engineer Role
Jennifer,
I’ve found a candidate for your DevOps Engineer position who appears to meet your top requirements and might fit well within
your company’s culture.
John Smith has extensive coding experience in Python and Perl. He has been responsible for with both AWS and Rackspace
for cloud services. In addition, I’ve gathered from his contributions to numerous tech sites, such as Stack Overflow, that he’s
quite competent with building SQL queries.
He suggested that he would be interested in your particular opportunity. John is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Deltrix
Energy and is located in Austin, Texas. He would be willing to relocate to Houston for this role.
Here’s a rundown of the candidate’s technical expertise:
Working knowledge of Python
- Three years of experience directly coding in Python and another three years of development experience in other objectoriented languages.
- His projects in GitHub, that were based on Python, consistently get high reviews from others.
Experience in building cloud formation templates
- He led a transition at Deltrix to maintain all finance and accounting data in AWS.
- He regularly answers questions in Stack Overflow on the use of Rackspace in the energy sector. He’s kept up to date on
Rackspace, while focusing his day to day activities on AWS.
Experience with automation and configuration
- He has two years of experience with Puppet.
In addition, John has some intriguing passions, interests and value that align with our company’s culture and vision, including:
Self-driven
Here are a couple of conversations he started on Twitter that show he is self-driven to find answers and solve problems:
- Insert link to Twitter conversation 1
- Insert link to Twitter conversation 2
- Insert link to Twitter conversation 3
Good communicator
Here are a couple of examples from Stack Overflow of him giving concise, but specific feedback to other engineers on
overcoming obstacles to building an entire cloud stack.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27842405/compatibility-between-datastax-ops-center-and-dev-center-and-solutions
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21712067/what-does-devops-mean/25546566#25546566
Entrepreneurial
He has worked at energy startups such as AltaRock Energy and Draper Fisher, as well as bigger companies with a known
start up culture, such as Dell and General Electric.
If you want to know more about the candidate before proceeding, feel free to look over their attached resume and this Open
Web summary of their contributions to social sites.
The candidate is available to interview immediately. Let me know if you want me to set it up.
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RECRUITING FIRM TO HIRING MANAGER
SUBJECT: Potential Candidates for <INSERT POSITION NAME> Role
<INSERT HIRING MANAGER NAME>
I’ve found a candidate for your <INSERT POSITION NAME> position who appears to meet your top requirements and might fit
well within your company’s culture.
<INSERT CANDIDATE NAME> has <INSERT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES THE CANDIDATE HAS, WHICH YOU
OBSERVED THROUGH A COMBINATION OF RESUME, SOCIAL INFORMATION AND A PHONE SCREEN>
The candidate suggested they would be interested in your particular opportunity. The candidate is a <INSERT CURRENT
POSITION> at <INSERT CURRENT EMPLOYER> and is located in <INSERT CURRENT LOCATION>. <IF CURRENTLY
LOCATED IN CITY OUTSIDE OF JOB LOCATION, INCLUDE INFORMATION FROM DICE ON WILLINGNESS TO
RELOCATE>.
Here’s a rundown of the candidate’s technical expertise:
<INSERT REQUIREMENT #1>
<INSERT SUMMARY OF CANDIDATE’S EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE FROM RESUME AND SOCIAL DATA>
<INSERT REQUIREMENT #2>
<INSERT SUMMARY OF CANDIDATE’S EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE FROM RESUME AND SOCIAL DATA>
<INSERT REQUIREMENT #3>
<INSERT SUMMARY OF CANDIDATE’S EXPERIENCE AND EVIDENCE FROM RESUME AND SOCIAL DATA>
In addition, <INSERT CANDIDATE NAME> has some intriguing passions, interests and value that align with our company’s
culture and vision, including:
<INSERT COMPANY VALUE #1>
<INSERT EXAMPLES FROM TWITTER THAT SHOW ALIGNMENT WITH VALUE>
<INSERT COMPANY VALUE #2>
<INSERT EXAMPLES FROM TECH SPECIFIC SITES, LIKE GITHUB OR STACKOVERFLOW, THAT ALIGN WITH THE
VALUE>
<INSERT COMPANY VALUE #3>
<INSERT EXAMPLES OF COMPANIES THAT THE CANDIDATE HAS WORKED FOR THAT ARE SIMILAR TO YOUR
COMPANY>
If you want to know more about the candidate before proceeding, feel free to look over their attached resume and <INSERT
LINK TO OPEN WEB PROFILE>
The candidate is available to interview <INSERT DATE AVAILABILITIES>. Let me know if you want me to set it up.
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