Cold-outreach playbook

3 LinkedIn templates that get HR/recruiting replies.

Drop-in messages tuned for owner-operator businesses. Each ships with a CTA link pre-tagged for attribution, so you can see in next week's report which template drove the hire.

tpl1 ~50 words

Short opener

Best for HR managers who posted a job in the last 30 days. Low-friction ask.

Hi {first_name} — saw {company}'s posting for {role}. Quick question: are you still routing résumés through inbox + spreadsheets? Most operators we work with say that's where hiring slips from days to weeks. Worth a 90-second look? {ctaUrl}

— Scout
CTA link: https://talentvelocity.ai/screen?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=cold_outreach&utm_campaign=tpl1
tpl2 ~120 words

Story-led middle

Lead with a concrete customer anecdote. Best when the prospect has been burned by a slow hire before.

Hi {first_name}, quick story: an HVAC operator we work with had three tech applicants on the bench last Tuesday. By Wednesday afternoon he'd hired one. Résumé pile, rubric, citations — all scored in 90 seconds.

Before Scout, that same hiring cycle took 4 days minimum. He'd posted the JD, manually read 30 résumés, compared against a spreadsheet he'd built himself, then scheduled interviews. Half the candidates had already accepted other offers.

If {company}'s {role} search is moving at that pace, there's a tool worth seeing. It scores your existing rubric (or extracts one from your JD), cites every claim to a line in the résumé, and returns a ranked shortlist in 90 seconds — no account, no credit card.

Worth a look? {ctaUrl}
CTA link: https://talentvelocity.ai/screen?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=cold_outreach&utm_campaign=tpl2
tpl3 ~200 words

Value-prop long

Use when the prospect already understands the cost of a slow hire. Explicit time delta, citations callout, explicit ask.

Hi {first_name} — HR + recruiting owner/operators we work with kept losing candidates to competitors because their manual shortlist took 4 days. Scout compresses that to 90 seconds — and cites every claim back to a line in the résumé.

How it works in practice:
1. Paste your job description (or upload a rubric you've already built).
2. Drop in 10–100 résumés — paste plain text, attach a PDF list, or forward an email thread.
3. Scout scores every candidate against your rubric and returns a ranked shortlist. Every strength and every flag carries a citation: page, line, exact phrase.

A retail manager we screened last week had 47 applicants. The shortlist came back in 92 seconds. The #1 candidate had a verbatim reference to "shrink reduction of 11% across 22 stores" on page 2 of her résumé — exactly what the rubric was hunting for. That's the moat: cited scoring, not vibes.

If {company} is hiring for {role} this quarter, this is the closest thing to a 24-hour hire. Free to try, no account needed.

{ctaUrl}
CTA link: https://talentvelocity.ai/screen?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=cold_outreach&utm_campaign=tpl3

Placeholders: replace {first_name}, {company}, and {role} before pasting. The CTA link includes utm_campaign=tpl1|tpl2|tpl3 so the weekly funnel report attributes each conversion back to the specific template that drove it.