Candidate outreach message templates
Email scripts for recruiters
For anyone who sells to recruitment firms and wants recruiters on their list.
Scorecard
How strong is your hiring process?
How to use this scorecard
Share it with small employers before their next hire. Their answers show where their hiring is weak, which gives you a useful first conversation.
What is inside
Score your hiring
Why each question mattersBrief
Fix these before your next hireWrite the brief: One page on the job, the hours, the pay and what good looks like.
Worth doing this yearBuild a bank of interview questions. One set per role, kept up to date.
Your next hire, step by stepWrite the brief and agree the pay range.
Three title ideas for your own version
How strong is your hiring process
The hiring health scorecard for small employers
Score your hiring in two minutes
Where to promote it
LinkedIn postslocal business groupschamber of commerce newslettersa link in your email signature
What goes in a hiring scorecard?
Ten quick questions on briefs, adverts, interviews and first weeks, a score out of twenty, what the score means, the quickest fix for each point and a plan for the next hire.
Make this scorecard your own
The sample above is a real page. Press Use this template, sign up, and it appears in your account with this text and look, ready to edit. Change the words, add your own details and publish it.
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