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Hiring senior marketers is a context problem

Why generic outreach gets ignored.

Senior marketers do not ignore your outreach because they are happy. They ignore it because the message proves you have not looked at what they actually do.

The tell

  • 01A role title with no mention of what is currently broken.
  • 02Scope described as 'ownership' with no indication of what is already owned by someone else.
  • 03No stated position on how the company thinks about marketing - which usually means it has not decided.

The reverse is also true. The messages I have responded to had one thing in common: they named a specific problem and were honest that it was unsolved.

Seniority is mostly pattern recognition. You cannot recruit someone for their pattern recognition with a message that shows none of yours.

This is also why the recruiter view of this site exists: state the fit and the non-fit up front and let both sides skip three calls.

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