The best candidates
aren't applying.
Go find them instead.
Over 70% of the workforce is passively open to new opportunities — but they'll never apply for your role. ConnectionQ lets you find them on LinkedIn, reach out with a personalised sequence, and manage every candidate conversation from one inbox, across every open role, without risking your account.
Why job boards alone don't fill senior roles
73% of candidates are passive.
They're on LinkedIn.
They're just not on Indeed.
Job boards give you the 27% who are actively looking — often the candidates who've been looking for a while, or who apply to every role regardless of fit. The best candidates — the ones already succeeding somewhere else — never see your job posting because they're not searching.
To reach passive candidates, you go to them. LinkedIn is where they are. ConnectionQ automates the entire outreach motion — the sourcing, the sequencing, the follow-ups, the inbox management — so you're having conversations with candidates who didn't even know they were looking until you reached out.
The recruiter workflow
From job brief to shortlist
in days — not weeks.
ConnectionQ wraps around how you already recruit — it just removes the manual, repetitive steps that eat your day and replace them with automation that runs while you focus on the human parts of hiring.
Search and filter candidates live
Open the role in ConnectionQ and set your filters — job title, skills, years of experience, location, company size, industry, "open to work" signal. Watch matching candidate profiles appear in real time. You see exactly who's in the shortlist before adding a single name. No CSV, no blind import.
Organise into a talent list per role
Add filtered candidates to a named talent list — "Senior Backend Engineer Q3" — in one click. Lists stay per-role, per-client, or per-team so nothing bleeds across sourcing pipelines. Candidates' profiles, email status, and connection stage are stored with each record.
Launch a personalised candidate sequence
Select a sequence template — or build one — that uses the candidate's name, current role, company, and skills. The sequence runs automatically: view profile first (familiarity), send connection request, wait for acceptance, then send a personalised message about the role. If they have an open profile, skip the connection and InMail directly.
Find their email if LinkedIn goes quiet
If a candidate connects but doesn't reply after a week, a "Find Email" action in the sequence automatically locates their work email. The next step sends a short, direct follow-up to their inbox — reaching them on a channel where response rates are typically higher than LinkedIn messages.
Manage every conversation in one inbox
Candidate replies across all roles and all accounts land in a single unified inbox. AI reads the thread history and drafts contextual responses — screening questions, next steps, interview scheduling. You review, adjust if needed, and send. The sequence stops the moment someone responds, so no awkward follow-up goes to a candidate already in conversation.
Everything a recruiter needs
Every feature built around
how recruiters actually hire.
ConnectionQ isn't a generic outreach tool with a recruitment skin. Every feature has a direct application in the talent acquisition workflow — from first sourcing search to offer acceptance.
Find candidates by title, skills, experience, and location — live
Search LinkedIn's full professional database inside ConnectionQ with visual filters. Set job title, seniority, years of experience, location, current employer, or industry — and watch matching profiles appear in real time. You see each candidate's current role, company, and connection status before adding them to a sourcing list.
Separate talent lists per role or client
Keep every role's candidate pipeline separate. Create named lists — "Backend Engineer Q3", "VP Marketing EMEA", "DevOps Lead — Client: TechCorp" — so no candidates cross-contaminate sourcing pipelines. Export any list to your ATS as a CSV.
Sequences that feel written — not templated
Each message references the candidate's actual name, current title, company, and location. To the candidate, it reads like you took 10 minutes to write it personally. To you, it runs for 500 candidates while you sleep.
Sequence branches on every candidate action
If a candidate accepts your connection, they get a warm, personal message about the role. If they don't, the sequence tries an InMail after 3 days. If they have an open profile, skip the connection request entirely. Every candidate follows the optimal path.
LinkedIn ignored you? Reach them by email instead
Some candidates accept your connection but never read LinkedIn messages. Others don't check LinkedIn at all. A single "Find Email" step in your sequence automatically locates their work email — and the next action sends a short, direct follow-up to their inbox. Two channels are almost always better than one when you're reaching passive talent.
All candidate replies — one inbox
Every response from every role, every recruiter account, lands in one unified inbox. AI reads the conversation history and suggests a relevant reply — screening questions, next steps, scheduling. The sequence stops automatically the moment someone responds.
LinkedIn won't flag you for sourcing at scale
Recruiter accounts get flagged more aggressively than regular users because LinkedIn knows they're sourcing at volume. ConnectionQ enforces recruiter-appropriate daily limits, randomised delays, and human-mimicking behaviour so your sourcing account stays clean indefinitely.
Push candidates to your ATS in one click
Export any talent list as a CSV — candidate name, LinkedIn URL, current title, company, email, connection stage, reply status. Import directly into your ATS, CRM, or spreadsheet. Your data, your format, zero lock-in.
Switch between client accounts by changing the URL — no re-login, under 1 second. Each client's candidates and conversations stay fully isolated.
For staffing and RPO firms
Managing sourcing
for multiple clients?
One dashboard handles all of it.
If you run a staffing firm or recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) business, ConnectionQ handles your multi-client setup the same way it handles multi-client sales agencies — each client gets their own isolated recruiter account, dedicated IP, and separate talent pipeline. You switch between them via URL with no re-authentication.
Candidate lists are per-client. Conversations are per-account. Sequences can be templated across clients or built from scratch per role. Your team accesses everything from one workspace without the risk of candidate data crossing into the wrong client's pipeline.
Why most recruiter outreach gets ignored
Candidates know a mass
message when they see one.
The average LinkedIn user receives 4–7 recruiter messages per week. Most are generic. The ones that get replies are specific, relevant, and clearly written for that individual. ConnectionQ makes it possible to send that kind of message at scale.
ConnectionQ's dynamic variables pull the candidate's name, title, company, location, skills, and years of experience directly from their LinkedIn profile into every message. Every candidate receives a message that feels like it was written for them — because effectively, it was.
From recruiters who switched
What changes when you stop
doing sourcing manually.
"I used to spend 3 hours a day manually sending LinkedIn invites and follow-ups. Now ConnectionQ does it automatically while I spend those 3 hours actually talking to candidates and closing placements. My fill rate went from 2 roles a month to 5."
Kate Sullivan
Independent Technical Recruiter
"Our average time-to-shortlist dropped from 3 weeks to 6 days. We're sourcing the same number of candidates with half the manual effort. The personalisation is genuinely good — candidates often ask how I found them specifically."
Ravi Mehta
Head of Talent Acquisition, Series B SaaS
"We run sourcing for 8 clients simultaneously. ConnectionQ's account isolation means each client's candidate pipeline is completely separate — we've never had a cross-contamination issue. The email finder alone replaced our Hunter subscription."
Amanda Cole
Director, Tech Staffing Agency (8 clients)
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Stop waiting for candidates
to find you.
Go find them instead.
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