B
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30%
30% -- reply rate for Candidate Outreach Cold Emails (2026)
Candidate outreach cold emails achieve up to a 30-50% reply rate for top recruiters.
- Represents the lower end of a 30-50% range reported by top recruiters
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30%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
50
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Prospeo
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Tier B
https://prospeo.io/s/cold-email-template-for-staffing-agency ↗
Source Article
7 Cold Email Templates for Staffing Agencies (2026)
7 Cold Email Templates for Staffing Agencies That Actually Work
You send 200 emails. You get 3 replies. One's an auto-responder, one's "not interested," and the third ghosts after the first call. The average reply rate sits at 3.43% across industries, and generic "we're a staffing firm, let's chat" …
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Top recruiters' performance for passive talent.
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Industrymarketing
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Candidate Outreach Cold Emails: 30% reply rate. Source: Prospeo (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/candidate_outreach_reply_rate
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/candidate_outreach_reply_rate" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>30%</strong> -- reply rate for Candidate Outreach Cold Emails<br><small>Source: Prospeo (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/candidate_outreach_reply_rate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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