You’ve got mail!Name generation/research/sourcing involves sending over Quality names that can be reached! Here is a way (and a tool I use) that you can add to your sourcing toolbox to verify and check your names. Specifically to check if their email is valid before sending it over to the recruiter, hiring mgr, director or higher!

Check this website out! www.mailtester.com

As Sourcers we are constantly tested to find particular talent hidden away and working hard within their respective organizations. I’ve found emailing to be one the best initial ways to make that first contact or connection with them.

Most (hopefully) all of us are using linkedin already and this is a way I use to check if talent might still be there. Sometimes we do see some bios on linkedin that are a little lean and not much there. While mailtester isn’t able to test/ping all emails - overall, it a pretty handy tool you can use.

So how do you know their email (or even figure it out)? Look for an email pattern and try it out on mailtester. The most common email patterns are usually:

firstname.lastname@company.com (example: daniel.harris@company.com)

firstnameinitial,lastname@company.com (example: dharris@company.com)

firstname,lastnameinitial@company.com (example: danielh@company.com)

firstname@company.com (Usually small companies, example: daniel@company.com)

firstname_lastname@company.com (xample: daniel_harris@company.com)

lastname_firstname@company.com (example: harris_daniel@company.com)
I have listed above the more common ones I tend to see. Please realize it does take experience, knowledge, and research. This is a great way to check where they may really be at when a linkedin bio shows them currently at two different companies!Remember its not just the quantity of names but Quality! Its Important that recruiters, hiring managers and directors need to be able to reach out and email them! A BIG Thanks to Moises Lopez for inviting me to be a guest blogger on the Sourcing Corner and until next time…Wishing You All the BEST!!!-Dan Harris