Email formats in HR & Recruiting companies

Which address pattern to try first when you reach out to people at HR & Recruiting companies, worked out from the contacts in our database.

846addresses analysed
190companies

The short answer

first.last@company.com is the most common format in HR & Recruiting companies, matching 66.1% of the addresses we analysed. The next most common is flast@company.com (11.1%).

All formats we found

FormatExampleShare of addressesCompanies where it is the most common
first.last@ james.robinson@company.com
66.1%
 80
flast@ jrobinson@company.com
11.1%
 11
first@ james@company.com
8.9%
 6
first_last@ james_robinson@company.com
7.7%
 3
first-last@ james-robinson@company.com
2.2%
 0
last@ robinson@company.com
0.8%
 0
firstl@ jamesr@company.com
0.7%
 0
firstlast@ jamesrobinson@company.com
0.7%
 1
fl@ jr@company.com
0.5%
 0
lastf@ robinsonj@company.com
0.4%
 0

Based on 846 work addresses from 190 companies. 101 companies with three or more matched addresses had one clearly dominant format.

How to use this

  1. Open the company's profile and check its own email format. Companies differ, so this beats any industry average.
  2. If the profile has no format yet, try first.last@ first, then flast@.
  3. Check the address with the email checker before you send. It tests the mailbox without sending a message.

Questions

What is the most common email format in HR & Recruiting companies?

first.last@company.com is the most common format, matching 66.1% of the 846 addresses we analysed across 190 companies.

Do all HR & Recruiting companies use the same format?

No. Among the 101 companies in this sample with a clear dominant format, first.last was dominant in 80. Always check the company's own format on its profile page before sending.

Related

How this is calculated: each address is matched to the contact's name, and only business addresses on the company's own domain are counted. Consumer mail providers such as Gmail are excluded. The sample is the companies with the most contacts in this industry, so it favours larger companies.