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Write a short personal note for the body of a follow-up recruiting email. Can be 1-2 sentences.

Context

• The email is from a hiring manager (team leader, VP R&D, etc.)
• Target audience: candidates in Israel
• This goes in the email body, not subject line
• Must be DIFFERENT from the subject line (pick a different angle/detail from their profile)

Requirements

• Pick ONE specific thing from the candidate's profile (different from what subject line used)
• Either ask a genuine question about it OR give a quick compliment
• Keep it casual and human
• Write like a real person, not a recruiter bot
• Can be slightly longer than subject line but still concise

CRITICAL VALIDATION RULES (check before output):

1. No em dashes - Never use "—" anywhere. Use "-" or ", " instead.
2. No duplicate companies - Never mention the same company twice. If they stayed at the same place (including variants like "Pecan" and "Pecan AI", "Waze" and "Google/Waze"), focus on role growth, skills, or education instead.
3. Clean company names - Strip suffixes: Ltd, Inc, Corp, Technologies, Labs, .io, Group, Solutions. Use core brand only:
   • "Healthy.io" -> "Healthy"
   • "AI21 Labs" -> "AI21"
   • "NSO Group" -> "NSO"
   • "Argus Cyber Security Ltd." -> "Argus"
   • "Istra Research Ltd." -> "Istra Research"
4. Same parent company = same company - Google/Waze, Unity/ironSource, SAP/Gigya are same company. Don't reference the transition.

NEVER use these (instant disqualify):

• Em dashes (—) - never use them
• "I hope this message finds you well"
• "I hope you're doing well"
• "I came across your profile"
• "I was impressed by"
• "I noticed"
• "Reaching out because"
• "Hope you're having a great day"
• "Just following up"
• "Wanted to circle back"
• Any generic opener that could apply to anyone
• Repeating the same company name twice
• "What keeps you busy at X?" - overused, avoid

Good examples by category:

Company transitions (use when prev != current):

• "Big move from [prev]. What pulled you over?"
• "[Prev] to [current] is an interesting path. What sparked the change?"
• "Curious what drew you from [prev] to the startup world."
• "[Prev] to startup - what's the biggest change?"
• "Two strong security companies back to back. What draws you to the space?"
• "Enterprise to startup - what's the biggest change in how you work?"

Education hooks:

• "Technion is no joke. How do you apply that rigor at work?"
• "TAU CS is competitive. What area grabbed your interest?"
• "Hebrew U has strong CS. What got you into backend?"
• "BGU engineering is solid. What kind of problems do you enjoy solving?"
• "BGU with honors is impressive. What area of CS grabbed your interest most?"
• "TAU MBA + Hebrew U MSc is a strong combo. How do you apply both?"
• "Physics background in [domain] - how does that help you think about problems?"

Title/Leadership:

• "Leading and coding is a balancing act. How do you split your time?"
• "Curious how you keep shipping code while managing a team."
• "Tech lead who still builds - that's rare. How do you make time?"
• "Team lead who still codes - how do you balance both responsibilities?"
• "Observability tools are tricky to build. What's the hardest part?"

Skills-based:

• "Rust in production is still rare. How's adoption going with the team?"
• "K8s at scale gets complex. What's your approach?"
• "Go for backend is a solid choice. What sold you on it?"
• "Kafka can be tricky. What's your setup like?"
• "Go and Python together is a solid combo. Which do you prefer for backend?"
• "Distributed systems are tricky. What's the hardest part?"
• "NestJS and TypeScript is a solid combo. How's the team using it?"
• "Spark and Airflow at scale is tricky. What's your approach?"
• "AWS Lambda and DynamoDB at scale is tricky. What's your approach?"
• "Kafka and gRPC together is interesting. How do you handle the complexity?"
• "GraphQL with microservices is interesting. How's your architecture set up?"
• "Scala/Spark/Akka is a powerful combo. What problems are you solving with it?"

Career path:

• "First employee at a startup is intense. What was the wildest part?"
• "Manager back to IC is a bold move. What drove that decision?"
• "Building from scratch is a different game. What do you enjoy most?"
• "7+ years at one company is rare. What keeps you engaged?"
• "CTO to engineer is interesting. What do you enjoy more about hands-on work?"
• "Research to engineering is an interesting path. How does that help you?"
• "15+ years in the industry - what's changed most about how we build software?"

Founding/early stage:

• "Founding engineer means wearing many hats. What's your favorite part?"
• "Early stage to scale-up is a journey. How's the transition?"

Acquisitions/transitions:

• "[Company] to [Acquirer] acquisition is a ride. How's the transition going?"
• "7+ years through an acquisition - how did [Acquirer] change things?"

Unique backgrounds:

• "[Non-CS field] to backend engineering is unique. How does that background help?"
• "Physics to software architecture is interesting. How does that background help?"
• "Music to security engineering is unique. How does that background help?"
• "Publishing tech articles while building is impressive. What do you write about?"
• "DS&A tutor at Technion - how does teaching help your engineering?"
• "Coaching competitive programming while building hardware - how do they complement?"

Input

Candidate profile information: $ARGUMENTS

Output

Return ONLY the personal note. No quotes, no explanation, nothing else.