Reaching the masses, in a personal way.
Chavez Peters places software and AI engineers at Dutch tech companies through Chase IT Recruitment. Elvatix became his number 1 tool for reaching out to candidates: 8,488 personal messages in 13 months, without writing them himself.
“If you want to raise both the quality and the intensity of your work, so simply do more as a recruiter, I would definitely recommend it.”
Translated from Dutch.
Every month, not just once
Messages sent per month, from August 2025 through September 2026. Failed sends are not counted. Monday was his outreach day: 30% of all messages went out on a Monday.
- 224Aug2025
- 814Sep
- 66Oct
- 611Nov
- 593Dec
- 733Jan2026
- 292Feb
- 446Mar
- 654Apr
- 908May
- 764Jun
- 913Jul
- 870Aug
- 600Sep
From a LinkedIn Recruiter search to a personal message
Three steps, all from his own LinkedIn account.
A candidate list from LinkedIn Recruiter
Chavez searched for his engineers the way he always had, in LinkedIn Recruiter. With the Elvatix extension he turned a search result into a list. Over thirteen months that added up to 454 lists.
A message of its own for every candidate
Elvatix read each profile and wrote a connection request or InMail for each person, in his tone. Not a template with only the first name swapped, but a message about that one engineer.
Sent from his own LinkedIn
The messages went out from his own account. Anyone who accepted or replied ended up in a conversation with Chavez himself. That is where his craft lies, and now he had the time for it.
What Chavez says about it
“If I had had to write all those messages myself, that would have been 40 hours a week. That did not work. And that is how the quality of my outreach got better too.”
“My number 1 tool for reaching out to candidates.”
“I make at least one placement every month where the first message was sent from Elvatix.”
“You were so quick, and it was always resolved properly. I am used to having to chase everything at big organisations.”
Chavez spoke Dutch; the quotes were translated.
More reach, without giving up the personal touch
Time back for the conversation
On average 17 hours a week of writing that Elvatix took over. Those hours went into what no tool can do: the conversation with the candidate and the client.
A network that kept growing
1,867 people accepted his connection request. On average, around 25% of LinkedIn connection requests with a personal note are accepted (Belkins, 11.5 million requests in 2025)¹. At Chase IT, that rose from 21% to 30% in one year.
Placements that started with a message
At least one placement a month started with a first message from Elvatix. After that, Chavez did what he does best: following up, calling, matching.
How we counted this
All figures come from Chavez's own Elvatix account, counted on 8 October 2026, with his permission. Only messages that were actually sent count; sends that LinkedIn refused have been taken out. A request counts as accepted if that person appeared in his LinkedIn network after the request. For the time saved we allow 7 minutes per personal message (8,488 messages is 990 hours); at 10 minutes per message that becomes 1,415 hours. The number of placements comes from Chavez himself.
¹ Source of the average: Belkins, B2B LinkedIn Outreach Benchmarks (2026, covering 2025). Belkins provides outreach services; the figures relate to B2B sales.
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