Reach out to candidates yourself

On a Sourcing only job, Finlay finds and shortlists people but sends no outreach on its own. Connect LinkedIn before drafting messages; Finlay sends the approved messages from your own account.

Choose this workflow when you want to control the first message and every candidate conversation yourself. For Finlay-managed first contact, see Automated outreach.

Create a batch

Under Sourced or Shortlisted, select the people you want to contact and choose Draft messages. You can work in small batches; creating drafts does not send them.

Review before sending

Finlay writes a first message for each selected person from the job’s outreach template. When the drafts are ready, open Review & send from the draft banner, the candidate profile or the notification.

• Edit a draft freely. LinkedIn invitation notes must be 300 characters or fewer.
• Update What Finlay is told to write when you want future drafts to use a different approach. It does not change drafts already made.
• Deselect anyone you are not ready to contact. Their draft remains available to review later.

Choose Send N from LinkedIn to queue the approved drafts. Finlay sends them gradually within LinkedIn’s delivery limits. On Sourcing only, you handle candidate replies and any follow-ups yourself.

To see why a message did not go out, see LinkedIn delivery and limits.