For Recruiters
A warm pipeline that remembers every passive candidate
Goodword helps recruiters track every candidate conversation across months of relationship building so the right talent surfaces at exactly the right moment, not buried in a spreadsheet from last quarter.
Where recruiter pipelines lose good candidates
The best candidates are rarely actively looking. Building a passive talent pipeline means managing relationships across months or years, with no guarantee of timing. The tools recruiters have were not designed for this.
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Passive candidates go stale in your pipeline
You had a strong conversation with an engineering lead six months ago. They were not ready to move then. You put them in a spreadsheet under "future." Now a role opens that would be perfect for them and your spreadsheet has 400 rows in it. By the time you find them, they have already accepted another offer from someone who stayed in touch.
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Cold outreach response rates are punishingly low
Industry data on outreach consistently shows cold InMail to a stranger converts in the low single digits, while a warm introduction from a shared connection routinely doubles or triples that rate. Most recruiters still send cold outreach because they genuinely do not know whether a warm path exists. It often does.
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Notes from old conversations are buried and lost
What did they say they wanted in their next role? What was holding them back from moving? What did you promise to send them? When a candidate resurfaces six months later, you are starting from zero, and they can tell. The conversation feels like a cold call, even though you have history. That history is locked in an email thread you will never find.
How Goodword helps recruiters
Goodword turns a passive talent pipeline from a spreadsheet graveyard into a living relationship graph where the right candidate surfaces exactly when the timing is right.
Captures LinkedIn notes and email exchanges automatically
Every time you look up a candidate on LinkedIn or exchange emails, Goodword captures the context without extra data entry. What they said they were looking for in their next role, the salary range they mentioned, the timeline they gave you. When they resurface, you have the full history in front of you before you dial.
- LinkedIn Chrome extension captures notes in context
- Email thread context extracted automatically for tagged contacts
- Candidate timeline shows every interaction chronologically
Surfaces passive candidates before they start looking actively
The window when a passive candidate starts to become open to a move is short, and most of the time you cannot see it coming. Goodword watches for the signals: a job anniversary, a company funding round that suggests headcount pressure, a LinkedIn update suggesting dissatisfaction, a period of quiet after they used to engage. When the window opens, you know first.
- Event-based nudges for job anniversaries and company news
- Configurable cadence per candidate based on role urgency
- Decay alerts when a once-warm contact goes quiet
Shows which colleague has the warmest relationship with a candidate
On the Teams plan, Goodword maps your entire team's relationship graph so you can see which recruiter or hiring manager already has a warm connection to the candidate you want to reach. Instead of sending a cold InMail, you ask a colleague to make the introduction. Response rates go up; candidates feel respected rather than hunted.
- Team relationship graph across all recruiters and hiring managers
- Multi-hop intro paths showing the strongest chain
- One-click introduction request drafted to your first-degree connector
Stop losing passive candidates to better timing
Starter plan is free. You can add your first candidate contact in about two minutes, no setup call needed.