In this instructional video, Helena Liu walks viewers through five concise email templates designed to help job seekers proactively connect with recruiters, hiring managers, current employees, industry contacts, and alumni. She begins by contrasting the passive approach of merely submitting a résumé through an applicant tracking system with the more effective strategy of building a network and securing referrals, which can elevate a candidate to the top of a recruiter’s list. For each template, Helena provides a sample subject line, a brief email script, and a concrete example that demonstrates how to tailor the message with specific achievements, metrics, and a clear call‑to‑action for a short call. The five outreach scenarios covered are: (1) contacting recruiters, (2) reaching out to hiring managers, (3) engaging current employees for insight and referrals, (4) requesting informational interviews for career pivots, and (5) connecting with alumni. Throughout, she emphasizes keeping messages short, results‑focused, and personalized, noting that few candidates take these extra steps, which gives them a significant advantage. The video concludes with a call‑to‑action to download the templates, like, and subscribe.
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Hey guys, and welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name is Helena, and in today's video, I'm going to give you 5 templates that you can use to reach out to recruiters and hiring managers or current employees if you're currently looking for a job. Now typically, there are 2 ways to land new job opportunities. One is you just submit your resume, you go through the application tracking system, and you hope that the recruiter looks at your resume, is impressed, and would give you a callback. The second way is to get a referral someone who's already working at the company, and this will basically get you to the top of that list, right? So this is a much more effective method of landing that interview and ultimately the job that you want. Now, there are ways to build your network consciously and effectively, and I'm going to show you some techniques in today's video on how to do that. I'm going to give you some templates of, you know, emails you can write when you want to reach out to recruiters, hiring managers that you don't know. And really get their attention because not many people are doing this. So without further ado, let's jump in and I'll show you some sample email scripts that you can use during your job search process. All right, now let's dive into the 5 email scripts that you can use to connect with recruiters. If you want a copy of any of these templates, please use the link in the description to download them. All right, without further ado, let's jump into template number 1, which is reaching out to recruiters for of these 5 templates, I'm going to read out the template to you first, and then I'm actually going to show you an example of how to apply these templates. So for this one, a sample subject line could be, strong candidate for whatever the name of the role that you're applying for is. So, hi recruiter name, I saw that your team was recruiting for this role at X company, and I'd love to be considered. I spent the last X number of years at X company, and List all of your current and past achievements. My core skills are in list all of your relevant skills. I think I'd be a great fit for this role that you have on hand. Let me know if you're free for a call later this week to discuss further. Thank you for your time. So what you can see is this is basically like your elevator pitch. You just want to keep it short and sweet. These recruiters don't have a lot of time, so you want to capture their attention right away with your top achievements and the top skills that you're. Bring to the table for this role. Now let's take a look at an example of how you can apply this. So here's a sample here. Strong candidate for senior marketing manager. Hi Winston, I saw your team was recruiting for a senior marketing manager role at Dior and I'd love to be considered. I spent the last 8 years with Ted Baker and led the digital marketing and events for their flagship stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong, managing an annual budget of $10 million. My core are in project management, paid media campaign, and working alongside major PR publications. I think I'd be a great fit for the role you have on hand. Let me know if you're free for a call later this week to discuss further. Thank you so much for your time. See, short and sweet, and get to get right to the point of why you would be a strong candidate for this role. All right, now moving on to template number 2, which is reaching out to the hiring manager. So this is the person with the decision power to actually give you the job. A sample subject line again could be strong candidate for the role that you're applying for. Hi name, I saw your team was expanding at name of the company. I saw that you have an opening for this role to do this, and I'd love to be considered for this role. I'm currently working with your current— insert the name of your current company— and oversee Whatever you're overseeing. In the past X month, I have— insert any big wins that you have had at your current company. And I'm looking to focus more on the— insert name of the industry. Thus, I think the job description you've posted have caught my attention, and I think I would be a great fit. I would love to chat with you further. Let me know if you're free for a call later this week to discuss. Thank you so much for your time, and I hope to meet you in person soon. Best your name. Again, keeping it short and sweet to the hiring manager. Show them that you're interested in this job and why. All of these emails are just a few sentences long. You don't have to write long, big paragraphs explaining everything you have done in your career, just the most relevant points that would be interest to the hiring manager for this role and explaining why you would be the best candidate here. And so little people do this, by the way. So many people just think, well, You know, I'll just submit my resume and that would be that. Not many people go the extra step of trying to figure out who the hiring manager is and reaching out to that person directly. So if you're taking this extra step, you are probably, you know, 90% ahead of all of the other applicants, and this will help set you apart in the job search process. So here's an example here. Strong candidate for account manager. Hi Henry, I saw your team was expanding at EFIT. Amazing work to you and your team. I see that you're looking for an account manager to lead the startup community, and I'd love to be considered. I'm currently working at Meltwater to oversee all of their tech clients worth over $1 billion in Asia. In the past 12 months, I have increased sales by 3x compared to the previous years and recently won Salesman of the Year award at the firm. I'm looking forward to focusing more on the finance market, and thus your job description have caught my attention, and I thought it would be great to have a chat. Let me know if you're free for a call later this week to discuss. Thank you so much for your time, and I hope to meet you in person soon. Get— see, short and sweet with specific numbers of results that you have, you have accomplished in the past in order to get this, this person's attention, uh, very quickly. All right, now let's move on to template number 3, which is reaching out to a current employee. This is really useful as well because a lot of times if you reach out to the current employee, you can find out how the company looks from the inside. It can help you gather more information going into your interview, and a lot of times if the current employee likes you, they could even give you a referral as well. So if you're reaching out to a current employee at the company that you want to work for, a sample subject line could be, learning about your experience at insert the name of the company. Hi name, amazing to see that you just celebrated your X years with X company. Congratulations on your tenure and all of the great things you've done with the firm. I want to reach out as I'm exploring opportunities with Insert the name of company. For myself, I'm currently working at— insert the name of your current company. I want to see— I want to see if I could learn more about your experience with X company and your thoughts about the company culture and future direction of the firm. I know you are slammed, so just wanted to see if you're available for a quick 15-minute call this week or next. No worries if your schedule doesn't allow it, just wanted to ask. Thank you so much. And best your name, right? So again, keeping it short and sweet, tell them why you're connecting. And here's an example of how to implement this template. Learning about your experiences at EY. Hi James, amazing to see that you just celebrated your 5th anniversary with EY. Congratulations on your tenure and all of the great things that you have done with the firm. I wanted to reach out as I'm exploring opportunities with EY advisory myself. I'm currently working at Grant Thornton in cybersecurity team and wanted to see if I can learn more about your experiences with EY and your thoughts about the company culture and the future direction of the firm. I know you're slammed, so I just wanted to see if you're available for a quick 15-minute call this week or next. No worries if your schedule doesn't allow it, just wanted to ask. Thank you so much in advance. James. Best, Helena. And now let's move on to template number 4, which is reaching out for an informational call. And this could be with anyone at the company that you want to, or company that you want to work for, or in the industry that you want to work in. And this is just to find out, you know, what they're doing on their job, where the industry is headed, and how you can best prepare yourself, right? So a sample subject line here could be career pivot to insert the industry that you want to pivot to. So you can say, hi name, hope you're doing well. I saw that you insert recent achievement or accomplishment that they've had. And a good place to find this is to just look at their LinkedIn profiles. A lot of times, um, the person that you want to reach out to, their contact information is directly on their LinkedIn profile as well. So it's not very hard to just send this person a request to connect on LinkedIn or to find their email on LinkedIn and send them a direct message as well. So, all right, so let me continue with this email here. Hope you're doing well. I saw that you insert the achievements they've had. It's a big goal of mine to move into insert the name of the industry, so I love to see examples like yourself that makes it possible. I know you must be incredibly incredibly busy, but I was wondering if you would be open to connecting through coffee or a quick phone call so I can learn more about your career and the steps you took to make the pivot into insert the name of the industry. Let me know if you have some time in the next coming weeks. Thank you so much in advance. Here's an example of how you can implement this template. Career pivot to data. Hi Jenny, hope you're doing well. I saw that you recently graduated from the H Academy data science course and landed a new role. Congratulations! It's a big goal of mine to move into a data role, so I love to see examples like yourself that it is possible. I know you must be incredibly busy, but I was wondering if you would be open to connecting through coffee or a quick phone call so I could learn more about your career and the steps you took to make that pivot into data. Let me know if you have some time in the next coming weeks. Thank you so much in advance. Again, keeping it short and sweet, telling the person why you're connecting, what you're hoping to learn from them, and try to transition it to a call to connect with this person a bit deeper. Finally, let's move on to our template number 5, which is reaching out to alumni. So this is finding out someone from your past university university or college who currently works at the company or the role that you want to work at, connecting with them and seeing if they could give you a referral or just learn more about the role. Okay, you never want to directly ask for that referral. You want that person to, you know, naturally give it to you. And the way you do it is to connect with this person in the right way. And you can see from these email templates that you are approaching it very lightly. And when people like you, and as they're connecting with you, they can see that, you know, your passion, your enthusiasm is coming through. When they see that, they would naturally want to help you. All right, so this template is for you if you're still in the more junior stages of your career, or if you're currently a student. So a sample subject line here could be, student from insert the name of your university. Hi name, great to meet you here. I've been following your activities on LinkedIn for the past year and would love to see you insert the name of their accomplishment. I'm currently a insert your major and university, and I'm very interested in a career in insert the name of the industry you're interested in. I wanted to reach out and learn more about your personal career journey if you'd be willing to share. Would you have 15 minutes available this week or next? Thank you so much in advance. Best your name. All right, and lastly, here is a template on how you can implement this template. Student from USC, great to meet you here. I have been following your activity on LinkedIn for the past year and love to see you give back to so many students through your alumni association and share all the great experiences you accumulated at JP Morgan. I'm currently a 3rd-year finance major at USC and very interested in the future career in banking. I wanted to reach out to learn more about your personal career journey if you're willing to share. Would you have 15 minutes available this week or next? Thank you so much in advance. And boom, see, it's not very hard to reach out to people, guys. Just a couple sentences, polite, to the point, and you're going to stand out so much more from the crowd because Not many people do things like this. All right, so I hope you found this video helpful. If you did, please like and subscribe to our channel, and you can download all of these templates, um, using the link below. Thank you so much, and I'll see you in soon.
