Thoughts on cold emailing in the age of AI? Things have changed these past few years and I want to know your thoughts. /u/restlessdraugr CSCQ protests reddit

Hey everyone,

So I’m back on my job search grind these past few months, after not doing much for a year. I had a year long kick of going really hard at it a couple years ago, and I found that cold emailing was my greatest tool. All of my interviews came from cold emails. Back then I had a rough template that I’d replace certain words in or add/subtract a bit. I’d target pretty much anyone at the companies.

Fast forward to now where everyone is using AI. Now, I feel like all written communication has been cheapened. If you type a nice message to someone in this context, they’ll probably assume it’s written by AI and you didn’t put in that effort. I’ve started up my applications again for the first time in a couple years a few days ago, and now I’m using AI to craft cold emails with ease.

I’m just wondering if you think cold emails are not considered as much anymore since they’re now likely AI. These past few days I have been using it to craft my cold emails. The main issue I see with AI writes things like cold emails TOO perfectly. The thing is, it is still better than my old template and so much easier to tailor to the job description when I paste it in. I always read over each generated email carefully before I send it, adding or subtracting things from the suggestion as needed. It’s great and has allowed me to send more emails and increased my efficiency overall.

As someone who would be willing to put in the effort to type cold emails but prefers my efficiency with AI, I feel like I’d probably just lose out if doing my old method because everyone is going to be suspicious of any correspondence now. I’m hoping that cold emails are still somewhat as effective as they once were and not disregarded completely.

Also, I never used to do cover letters but now I’ve been doing them for almost every application because I can easily generate, proofread, and edit something great. But those are probably cheapened as well.

What do y’all think? If you’re a hiring manager or someone in the position to recieve cold emails, do you instantly assume everything is AI? I’m not using tools like Apollo to automate everything, I still do each one manually and put care into making sure it doesn’t sound weird and accurately reflects my skills.

If you’re on this sub and haven’t cold emailed before though, I recommend it more than anything. It increases your chances a lot and I landed several interviews through them in the past.

Hey everyone,

So I’m back on my job search grind these past few months, after not doing much for a year. I had a year long kick of going really hard at it a couple years ago, and I found that cold emailing was my greatest tool. All of my interviews came from cold emails. Back then I had a rough template that I’d replace certain words in or add/subtract a bit. I’d target pretty much anyone at the companies.

Fast forward to now where everyone is using AI. Now, I feel like all written communication has been cheapened. If you type a nice message to someone in this context, they’ll probably assume it’s written by AI and you didn’t put in that effort. I’ve started up my applications again for the first time in a couple years a few days ago, and now I’m using AI to craft cold emails with ease.

I’m just wondering if you think cold emails are not considered as much anymore since they’re now likely AI. These past few days I have been using it to craft my cold emails. The main issue I see with AI writes things like cold emails TOO perfectly. The thing is, it is still better than my old template and so much easier to tailor to the job description when I paste it in. I always read over each generated email carefully before I send it, adding or subtracting things from the suggestion as needed. It’s great and has allowed me to send more emails and increased my efficiency overall.

As someone who would be willing to put in the effort to type cold emails but prefers my efficiency with AI, I feel like I’d probably just lose out if doing my old method because everyone is going to be suspicious of any correspondence now. I’m hoping that cold emails are still somewhat as effective as they once were and not disregarded completely.

Also, I never used to do cover letters but now I’ve been doing them for almost every application because I can easily generate, proofread, and edit something great. But those are probably cheapened as well.

What do y’all think? If you’re a hiring manager or someone in the position to recieve cold emails, do you instantly assume everything is AI? I’m not using tools like Apollo to automate everything, I still do each one manually and put care into making sure it doesn’t sound weird and accurately reflects my skills.

If you’re on this sub and haven’t cold emailed before though, I recommend it more than anything. It increases your chances a lot and I landed several interviews through them in the past.