Cold Outreach & Marketing
Cold Outreach for Recruiting & Staffing Firms
Recruiting runs two outbound motions at once — winning client reqs from hiring managers and engaging candidates. BILT sends cold email and compliant SMS to both, and its AI follow-up answers replies and books the intake or screening call, so a recruiter's day goes to placements instead of inbox triage and timezone tag.
Staffing is a double-sided outbound business. On the client side you are pitching hiring managers for new reqs against a long, relationship-driven sales cycle; on the candidate side you are reaching passive talent who reply on their own schedule, often after hours. Both sides reward speed and consistency, and both drown a recruiter in follow-up.
BILT runs both motions from one platform. Cold email and compliant SMS reach hiring managers and candidates, and the AI follow-up handles the replies — booking client intake calls and candidate screens — so recruiters spend their time on the conversations that actually fill the role.
Sound familiar?
Candidates reply after hours and go cold by morning
Passive candidates answer on their lunch break or at 9pm — exactly when no recruiter is watching. By the time someone replies the next day, the candidate has lost interest or another firm got there first.
Winning new client reqs is a long, manual chase
Hiring managers ignore the first three touches and engage on the fourth or fifth, weeks later. Recruiters either let that follow-up slip or spend half their week on it instead of placing candidates.
Two channels, two audiences, no single system
Email for one cohort, SMS for another, a separate ATS, sticky-note reminders for follow-up — the manual coordination means dropped threads on both the client and candidate side, and dropped threads are lost fees.
The fix
What BILT runs for recruiting & staffing firms
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Open with the specific role, not a generic pitch
Reference the exact req, the candidate's current title, or a recent company move. Specificity is what gets a busy hiring manager or a passive candidate to reply — and the reply is what the AI turns into a booked call.
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Use compliant SMS for candidate speed-to-screen
Once a candidate opts in, an SMS gets read in minutes where email waits days. The AI answers their first questions about the role and books the screening call before a competing recruiter reaches them.
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Keep client reqs warm on autopilot
Set the cadence for hiring-manager outreach once and let the AI run the follow-up sequence and book the intake call when they engage — so reqs do not die because a recruiter got busy with a placement.
Questions
Can BILT handle both candidate and client outreach?
Yes — you run separate campaigns for hiring managers and candidates off the same platform, with the AI follow-up booking intake calls on the client side and screening calls on the candidate side. One system instead of two stitched-together stacks.
Is texting candidates compliant?
BILT's SMS is built around opt-in capture and automatic opt-out handling, so candidate texting stays inside the rules. You capture consent the right way and the platform enforces the rest.
Does this replace our ATS?
No — it is the outbound and reply-handling layer that feeds the top of your funnel. BILT books the calls; your ATS still manages the pipeline once a candidate or client is engaged.
How do we get access?
The cold email and SMS vertical is launching to a waitlist. Join it and tell us whether your firm leans client-side, candidate-side, or both — it helps us prioritize the recruiting workflows in the build.
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