Book a 15-minute demo

Candidate reactivation · for recruitment agencies

The placements hiding in your own database.

Rescendo re-engages the candidates you already paid to find — personally, one at a time — and taps your recruiters on the shoulder the moment someone says “I’m looking.”

Book a 15-minute demo How it works

Runs on your existing ATS or CRM. Nothing for your team to install, learn, or watch.

The problem

Your next placement is already in your ATS — going quiet.

Your database is full of candidates you already paid to find — job boards, referrals, years of recruiter hours. Then life happens: they take a role, pause a search, stop replying, and their file goes quiet. In a typical agency, most candidates haven’t been spoken to in months.

The expensive part: people’s situations change on their own schedule. The contractor whose project ended last month is looking right now — and will place through whichever agency reaches them first. Nobody has time to personally check in with two thousand quiet candidates. So those placements quietly go to someone else.

How it works

It does the two thousand polite check-ins. Your team gets the five warm conversations.

It finds the forgotten.

Each week it picks out candidates nobody has touched in 90+ days — and automatically skips anyone placed, or anyone who asked not to be contacted.

It writes to each one personally.

Every candidate gets an individually composed check-in based on their own history, sent from your recruiter’s name and your agency’s address. No templates, no “Dear candidate”, nothing that smells of a mail blast.

It reads every reply.

Responses are understood and sorted automatically: actively looking, open to offers, settled for now, placed elsewhere, or “please remove me”. Your database gets cleaner every week as a side effect.

It taps your recruiter at the right moment.

When someone replies “I’m looking”, your team gets a Slack or Teams message within about a minute — who it is, what they said, and a suggested next step. The recruiter picks up the phone.

What it is not

Deliberately boring where it should be.

Not a mass-email tool.Every message is written one at a time, for one person, in your voice — and volumes are kept deliberately low to protect your agency’s sending reputation.
Not scraping or bought lists.It only ever contacts people who registered with you, using your own data. Anyone who asks to be removed is excluded permanently and automatically — your GDPR position gets stronger, with a full record to show for it.
Not a replacement for recruiters.It does the part nobody has time for and hands your team the warm conversations that come out of it. The judgment, the relationship, the close — still yours.

What it’s worth

Revenue you already paid for.

A modest database produces a steady drip of “I’m looking” replies every month. If reactivation surfaces one extra placement per quarter, the service pays for itself several times over — from candidates you already own. Everything beyond that is margin you were previously donating to competitors.

Working together

Two weeks to live. Cancellable with 30 days’ notice.

Step 1 · 15 minutes
Watch it run live

A short call where you see the whole loop run on realistic data — no slides, no workshop.

Step 2 · ~2 weeks
Setup and pilot

We connect to your existing system, tune the writing to your agency’s voice, and run a small pilot batch that you read and approve before anything is sent.

From then on
Monthly service

Monitored, tuned, and reported on every month. No long contract — 30 days’ notice, your data stays yours.

See it run on realistic data.

Fifteen minutes, no slides. If it’s not a fit for how your agency works, you’ll know by minute six.

Book a 15-minute demo

Prefer to write first? hello@rescendo.com