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Kathleen Kurke
Well known for her 30 year history of high dollar production and growth-oriented leadership, Kathleen has worked extensively with companies and individuals to leverage learning as a business success strategy. Clients ask Kathleen to work with them on increasing Production, Profitability and building high-performing recruiting teams in the Executive Search, Perm and Staffing industries. Having served as Chief Learning Advocate with Global Recruiters Network, Inc (GRN), Kathleen worked with the almost 200 franchised offices to implement a learning strategy that increased system-wide and individual office revenues by launching over 1000 hours of annual learning content. While National Practice Leader with StarbridgeGroup, Inc. Kathleen worked with training and consulting companies around the world to recruit and hire executive talent to convert their business goals into reality. Her tenure in the learning business has included highs and lows in her various roles as practitioner, search team leader, building and managing a 15 person search firm, as a franchise owner and a franchise consultant and learning leader. Kathleen now works with a variety of recruiting and human capital companies as a speaker, trainer, coach and business consultant. Kathleen began her professional career in 1980 when she traveled around the country teaching sales effectiveness to thousands of fund raising executives on behalf of a national non-profit organization. After several years, Kathleen shifted into sales, starting with opening new territories and moving up to Vice President of Sales for an educational software firm. Moving into recruiting provided Kathleen with a powerful way to leverage her sales and executive experiences, and her long history of helping executives build organizations and struggle with career decisions established her as a trusted advisor and coach. Kathleen has remained a leader in the executive search industry for the last 20 years of her recruiting career, and was selected in 1995 for membership in the Pinnacle Society, a recruiting industry honor society recognizing 75 of the top executive recruiters in North America. Kathleen was honored to serve as President of this prestigious organization for 4 consecutive years, and has now returned to the organization as an honored member Emeritus. Kathleen’s core expertise is in helping others learn and get things done. Working with others as coach and consultant, she is known for helping her clients build dreams, make plans and execute to create results. Often that means laying out a roadmap, identifying roadblocks and building a detour so the journey is productive. Kathleen Kurke specializes in Productivity and Profitability Coaching in the Recruiting Industry. If you or your team would like to make better choices on working Job Orders to increase your production and pro tability, reach out to Kathleen at kathleentkurke@gmail.com.

10 Sample Will-Get-Opened E-Mail Subject Lines

  By Kathleen Kurke  |    Sunday November 12, 2018



Is most of your day spent reading/sending emails? Or, staring at your inbox hoping something important will fly into your inbox? Shame on you, because we both know that email is the sandbox of those pretending to look busy. 

Unless. 

Unless you’re sending emails that get opened and responded to. 

 

The statistics are startling:

• 35 percent of recipients decide if they’ll open an email based on the subject line alone.

• 69 percent only look at the email subject line before deciding to mark a message as spam.

 

If your emails don’t get opened, they don’t get read. And, if they don’t get read, nothing happens. And that means you’ll still be staring at your inbox hoping something will happen. Sad. 

Pay attention to the email subject lines that catch YOUR attention. They probably have these characteristics:

 

• There might be something in it for you. You probably don’t feel sold to. You open because there might be something in there of value to you; something to help you. 

• You’ve got FOMO. Fear of missing out is powerful, whether it’s the latest fashion trend, viral video or something hot related to work. If everybody else is going to know about it, you want to know about it too. FOMO email subject lines include words that imply time sensitivity. 

• It’s a call to action that appeals to you. Someone is asking something of you and you might want to help.

• You’re curious. The subject line gives you just enough information to make you want more.

Feeling your pain. The subject line suggests a solution to something that’s a trouble spot or pain point for you. 

 

Here are 10 Sample Will-Get-Opened Email Subject Lines Create variations of these subject lines relevant to your own desk specialty to increase your open rates and get the conversation started to create action and advancement.  

 

Check this out

Brand New: Cool New Opportunity for Structural Engineer to Build Bigger Bridges

Open to Learn More: AI Developers Ready to make a move

Industry Update: Ideas on Increasing Quota Attainment

Deadline Approaching

Question about your project backlog (or relevant industry challenge)

Do You Need Back-ups for your Development Team?

Can this Help?

Information about what AI Developers are looking for when they make a job change

Don’t Miss Out 

 

Remember, if you’re not adding value to the recipient’s email inbox, you’re just taking up space. 


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