by Ben Fielding | Apr 20, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing, Email Outreach
TL;DR Structure alone isn’t enough. The emails that really land leave the reader with something they didn’t have before they opened it. Value in a recruitment email doesn’t have to be a white paper. A sharp market insight or a credible benchmark is...
by Ben Fielding | Apr 20, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing
TL;DR Most spec emails fail because the recruiter is the subject of almost every sentence. The hiring manager barely features. The Main Character Method is a six-move framework that puts the reader at the centre of every email, from the opening line to the close The...
by Ben Fielding | Apr 20, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing
TL;DR Speculative recruitment emails still work, but they’ve always been a low-engagement play, and everyone in recruitment knows it What’s changed is the deliverability landscape: low open rates and spam complaints now actively damage your domain...
by Ben Fielding | Mar 24, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing, Email Outreach
Your candidates aren’t ignoring your emails. A lot of them never saw them. Email deliverability is the gap between hitting send and actually landing in the inbox. For most businesses, it is a background concern. For recruitment agencies, it is a commercial one....
by Ben Fielding | Jan 5, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing, Email Outreach, List Cleaning
Earn the Inbox or Lose It In 2025, every recruiter was talking about the same things: authentication, sending limits, complaints, staying out of spam. Good. Doing that work mattered. But here’s the uncomfortable truth I’m seeing play out. In 2026, having your...
by Ben Fielding | Jan 2, 2026 | Learn, Email Marketing, Email Outreach
Spoiler Alert: You’re Not the Hero Most recruitment emails fail before the second sentence. Not because the recruiter is bad at their job. Not because the service isn’t valuable. But because the email tells the wrong story. Too many emails are written as if the...
