Recruiter follow-up generator

Pick your situation — just applied, just interviewed, or radio silence for two weeks — fill in a few fields, and get a ready-to-send follow-up. Three patterns, all under 120 words, written to sound like a real person. Edit inline, then copy. No signup, no AI, nothing leaves your browser.

Follow-up type

Remembered in your browser for next time.

One sentence that makes this feel personal — an interview topic, a company detail, or a mutual contact. Nothing leaves your browser.

AutoAppli drafts follow-ups from the job you saved — not a blank form.

This tool gives you a solid starting point. AutoAppli goes further — it knows the recruiter's name, the role context, and where you are in the process from the job you bookmarked, then drafts outreach that actually references your application. No copy-paste from a form.

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When to send each follow-up

  • Post-application nudge. Send 5–7 business days after you submitted. Before this, you're just anxious. After 10 days with no response, move to the ghosted template. One nudge is fine; two is borderline; three is too many.
  • Post-interview thank-you. Send the same day, within a few hours if possible. Reference one specific thing — a question they asked, a problem they described, something the interviewer seemed genuinely excited about. Generic thank-yous land in a pile; specific ones get read.
  • Ghosted 2-week nudge. The goal here is not to guilt-trip — it's to surface your name one more time and give them an easy out. "No worries if the role moved in a different direction" lowers the social cost of replying with bad news, which means they're more likely to actually reply.

The one thing to personalise before hitting send

The optional detail field does most of the work. A recruiter who reads "I noticed you recently open-sourced your data pipeline" knows you're not mass-blasting. It doesn't need to be impressive — just specific to them. One sentence is enough.