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Using Hunter.io

 Out of all the online tools I've tried and tested, I can't believe I haven't talked about this one, one I've used over 4 years at this point and continues to add features that help.

It's how I found many emails to politely and persistently ask about my application while sending relevant links to this blog but there's a lot more down there too!


I uploaded the .CSV of emails to recruiters I use to send personalized, yet still batch, emails through Google Sheets to check for validity and acceptance rates.

 It did work, but I retracted everyone's information.



 




I had used the tool to check a few individual addresses and it did find one that was no longer operational; Suppose the person moved onto a new role.


I also converted it to a Campaign to send mass emails - which does have a neat thing to check how spammy one's email may be, though it doesn't give hints on how to better coerce click through and action for recipients.

 It seems to correlate doing business with spam. Mentioning that my resume is attached is consider spam to them. I suppose when they want it, they'll ask for it, but streamlining communication is a thing we can do; Why not do it?

Maybe they're trying to "open up a dialogue" or whatever.

I tested this with emails I received:

One that is basically bullet points and blurbs, it's "too long to check its spam score".
If the AI system can't be bothered to read 40 bullet points, I guess the person can't be bothered to either :( I parsed it down to about 16 linked bullet points and it calls it "great". 

But 3 links? That's spammy.

The third-party recruiting emails that don't even greet me by name get a "great" because they have minimal links.

I spent a lot more time finagling with this spam checker tool than I expected; It seems to value "human connection"* over getting things done. Those things are not at odds with each other. How was this trained? Did it scrape a website where people role-play at business and boast about meaningful connections instead of actually, tangibly helping people?

*I also put that in the box. Just that phrase. Marked it great. 

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Selecting a "Send from" address is a little strange, as I'm not sure I can put up my custom email-forwarded domain up there.

I'd use Hunter.io to send email blasts because they help me comply with regulations (I only send one email to recruiters a month, but having a built in opt-out for people helps) and I can check the open rate and how likely it is that my emails will get me my wanted result.

 

 I would test with our old Sheets standby just in case.

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