Send Your Letter and Resume to Recruiters -- for all Job Hunters Regardless of Seniority
Connect with recruiters who have current search assignments that match your qualifications
Send Your Letter and Resume to Venture Cap/PE Professionals -- for Senior Level Executives
Connect with venture cap/private equity professionals who are working with companies in need of senior level managers
FAQs: About Our Resume Distribution Service
1) Do you guarantee a specific number of distributed resumes? The specific number of resumes sent out depends on the industries, positions, and desired salary you choose. You will get a count after you put in the criteria and that is the number of recruiters we send the resume to. Since you are choosing from a database of more than 36,000 recruiters, the counts can be substantial. Typically a distribution is sent to between 1,000 and 2,000 recruiters.
2) How do I know who gets my letter and resume? If you choose the distribution plus data download, we will send you the data file we use for the distribution.
3) What email subject line should I use? Use an email subject which describes you or the position you are seeking. For example, Senior R&D Professional or New Graduate Seeking Sales Position. Non-specific subjects like Looking for a New Job or My Resume may not be enticing enough to encourage recruiters to open your email. In many cases, the title line (or a descriptive phrase) from your resume works well as the subject line for your emails.
4) What should I include in my letter? Your cover letter should be written to recruiters and their client companies. It should not be written as an answer to an advertisement. Do not contain fill-in-the blanks which our system cannot use. We put recruiter merge codes into your letter to personalize each email for your distribution.
5) Do the recruiters know that you are sending the resume on my behalf? The email is sent from your email address and replies go back to your email address. The email distribution looks like you sent out each email and attached resume yourself.
6) Will these recruiters help me find a job? Recruiters work for companies not for job-hunters. These targeted mailings are only one piece of a job hunt. We make it easy to send them out. But like any targeted marketing campaign they depend in part on serendipity. The mailings are done with the intent (and the hope) that your credentials cross a recruiter's desk at the same time he/she has an assignment that matches these credentials.
7) Why are there many recruiters at the same office in the distribution? If you decide to download the data file, you will notice we may send your resume and cover letter to several recruiters at the same firm. The reason is that the database system finds all recruiters at a firm who specialize in the categories you choose. It is most effective to send to all recruiters in your specialty areas, since you are playing a numbers game and the larger the number, the better the potential response.
8) Will this resume distribution find me a job? Sadly, you need to do all those other (and very time consuming things) like calling all your friends and relatives (and all their friends and relatives!) check job boards, executive changes and answer ads. No job-hunter can rely on resume distribution alone in a job hunt.
9) I do not want to move from Chicago, why are you sending my resume to recruiters in Los Angeles? A recruiter in Los Angeles or New York or Dallas or Atlanta could be working on an assignment in Chicago. The recruiter will contact you if you are a match for the assignment, regardless of location. If you are location-restricted, state that in your cover letter. But even if you cannot relocate, becoming known to recruiters who work in your field is a good job-hunting strategy.
10) How is the email distribution personalized? The emails we send out on your behalf are individually addressed to the recruiters in your subset. The distribution is intended to maintain that polite fiction that you have sent out only one email to that one recruiter.
Each email is sent to specific email address and the email looks like a formal business email, addressed to specific recruiters with a “Dear Mr./Ms. Last Name" salutation.
11) How long before I start hearing from recruiters? And how do I respond to those who do contact me? You will start getting replies almost immediately after we send out your emails. Some auto-responses, some out of office responses, and hopefully some replies asking for more information.
Emailing to recruiters is a process. It could be that recruiters have nothing that matches your background now, but could have future assignments that do.
It is important that you keep in touch with those recruiters who send you personal notes. First you should reply to these notes with a "thank you and please keep me in mind" email. Then every month or so, you should send email notes to these recruiters saying you are still in the market and seeing if there are any new assignments that would work for you. Like any marketing campaign, follow up is very important.
The distribution should be viewed as a way to make contacts in the recruiting world. Being in touch with recruiters who work in your specialty is a good job hunting strategy. Sometimes it can result in immediate interviews for specific assignments, but often it is a start in the networking process which can result in interviews and jobs -- but this process takes place over time, not instantly.