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Treat timing as a decision, not a sequence to finish
Automated candidate follow-ups in recruiting work best when they continue a specific conversation. Before scheduling one, ask what the person last heard, whether anything has changed, and whether another message would help them decide.
Set a team rule for unanswered first outreach rather than assuming there is one ideal interval. In a hypothetical workflow, a team might wait several business days before a brief follow-up and make one later, final attempt. That is an example of an editorial policy, not a Speiros setting. The right spacing depends on the role, the candidate’s signals, and any timing you have already promised.
- Stop the planned follow-up when someone replies, declines, asks for time, or opts out.
- After an interview or an open question, meet the update deadline you gave the candidate instead of sending a generic check-in.
- If the role or its terms change, have a recruiter review the new message before contact resumes.
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Carry forward the context that makes the message honest
Keep a short working record: the role and its scope, an evidence-based reason for reaching out, the last message and its date, any reply, the open question, the next step promised, and the person responsible. Avoid speculative claims about the candidate’s motivations and personal detail that is not needed for the conversation.
Speiros’s public product page describes a shared brief, a sourcing specialist that attaches reasons to a shortlist, an outreach specialist, and a conversation specialist that drafts replies for review. That supports a connected approach from search to conversation. It does not establish a configurable timed follow-up sequence, so check the product before making that part of your operating plan.
- Reference one genuine detail from the initial contact; do not manufacture familiarity.
- Add something useful, such as a clarified responsibility, an answer, or a proposed next step.
- Make it easy to say yes, suggest a better time, or decline.
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Hand the conversation to a recruiter when judgment matters
No reply may fit a simple follow-up rule; a reply usually changes the task. A recruiter should take over when a candidate asks a substantive question, shows conditional interest, raises a constraint, or challenges a claim about the role. Compensation, confidentiality, and post-interview feedback also call for a considered human response.
On Speiros’s product page, the conversation specialist drafts replies for review, while coordination moves through availability, approval, and invitation. Speiros says the team sets supervision and makes hiring decisions. In practice, separate assistance with preparing a response from the authority to send a commitment or make a hiring decision.
- Give every active conversation a clear human owner.
- Pause a planned follow-up as soon as a reply arrives; read the thread before responding.
- Review role changes, scheduling commitments, and post-interview messages with the hiring team.
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Pilot the rule against real conversation states
Test a small set of cases before applying your process broadly: unanswered outreach, an interested candidate who is unavailable now, an unanswered question, and an explicit decline. For each, check whether your rule correctly chooses to follow up, wait, stop, or escalate. Then read the proposed message from the candidate’s perspective: is the connection to the previous exchange clear?
Watch for preventable failures rather than just counting sends: a follow-up after a reply, stale role details, an ignored question, or a promise the team cannot keep. Speiros’s product page is a starting point for reviewing how brief, sourcing, outreach, and conversation fit together; it also points to pricing for access details. Choose a workflow your team can actually supervise.