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Recruitment agency leads for local service businesses

Build your own list of recruitment agencies, fill in missing emails and offer your services to businesses in their own region to them in small, personal batches.

  • Public sources for recruitment agencies
  • Fields that fit the industry
  • No credits, no rented data
Riftjaw dashboard with engagement chart, audience health, lead sources and activity feed

Selling services to businesses in their own region to recruitment agencies

Recruitment agencies are sales driven businesses, from solo recruiters to firms with many desks per sector. Directors buy tools that help consultants fill roles faster, and they understand outbound selling better than most.

Local service businesses mostly grow through word of mouth, a vehicle with their name on it and a listing in a few directories. A lead database of nearby companies lets you approach the right businesses in your own area instead of waiting for the phone to ring.

Every month you do not reach recruitment agencies with a clear offer, someone else does. A list you own lets you work the market in a steady rhythm instead of in bursts.

What local service businesses run into with recruitment agencies

You know which companies are nearby but have no organised list of them.

Paste a directory page into the scrape tool or import a list, then keep every company in one place with its own status.

Contact details on local websites are often just a web address.

Derive role addresses such as info@ and office@ from the domain with email from domain.

Jobs@ addresses fill up with candidate applications.

Tick info@ and hello@ as well and record which address brought a reply.

Agencies post many jobs, so the same agency appears again and again in scraped lists.

Duplicates are flagged on import against your key field, before anything is saved.

A week of prospecting in Riftjaw

Monday: collect

Export a batch of recruitment agencies from public listings and import it. Duplicates are skipped.

Paste and collect in Riftjaw: a pasted web page turned into a table of companies
Paste and collect in Riftjaw: a pasted listing page turned into columns of companies.

Tuesday: fill in

Derive missing emails with info@, jobs@, hello@ and careers@ and tag the records that look like a fit.

Contacts list in Riftjaw with company, phone, email, segment, campaigns and tags
Contacts in Riftjaw, one row per company with phone, email, segment and campaigns.

Wednesday: reach

Send one mail about your services to businesses in their own region to the new segment, in small batches.

Segments in Riftjaw, each with its own name and number of contacts
Segments such as property managers in London or roofers in the North, each ready to use in a campaign.

Friday: follow up

Opens and clicks show up on each record. Set the ones who answered to Replied or Customer, so the follow-ups of the campaign skip them.

Contact panel in Riftjaw with pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history
A contact in Riftjaw with its pipeline status, tags, details and campaign history.

How to open a mail to recruitment agencies

Write one mail with placeholders and let the details change per record. These openings tend to work with recruitment agencies.

  • Speak their language: placements, fill rate and time to hire.
  • Show how your offer lets consultants spend more time on calls with clients and candidates.
  • Be direct and to the point, because recruiters respect a clear pitch.
Campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and set the button
The campaign editor in Riftjaw: pick a segment, write the mail and check the preview.

Fields worth recording for recruitment agencies

Any column in your import can become a field. These are the ones worth keeping for recruitment agencies.

FieldWhy it helps
Company nameThe key field. Duplicates are checked on it or on the website.
WebsiteNeeded to derive an email when the export has none.
SectorsTech, healthcare or industrial recruiters need different tools.
ConsultantsThe number of desks shows how many seats a tool could fill.
Permanent or temporaryTemp agencies need payroll and compliance support.
Recruitment softwareTheir current system matters for any switch.
DirectorThe person who signs off on tools and suppliers.

Questions people ask

Choose the website or company name as the key field. Riftjaw flags duplicates in the file and against the database before you push the import.

Yes. Riftjaw is a general lead database. You can create separate lead files, or use the Agency plan with a workspace per client.

If your file has an email column, that wins. If it only has websites, tick the prefixes you want, such as info@, jobs@, hello@ and careers@, and Riftjaw derives addresses from each domain. Derived addresses are good guesses, not verified, so start with small batches.

Yes. The Free plan runs the whole pipeline on one list with small campaigns, and you do not need a credit card. Move to Pro when you want more lists, segments and bigger campaigns.

Build a database you own

Create your account, import your first list and see it turn into records you can work.

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