Should I prepare an ER Report before I start networking?

Associate 1 in ER

Prep these before. I included a pitch in my networking emails and generally had a solid success rate.

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Unsilenced Lamb

Interested

IPAs and IPOs

Yes you should have a pitch/report/model prepared, particularly if not lateraling from another ER role as it shows you do "love doing research".

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Rags to Hermes

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Thousand percent agree. Tons of people reach out to network. Percent that send a report is much smaller. Guess who I was more inclined to follow up with?

One kid reached out with a report that was so high quality that I forwarded it to the director of research for internships after I spoke with him. Kid crushed the interviews, got an internship and then a full time. He was at a no-name school, super non-target, no way he would've got through the HR filter otherwise.

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rich_toad

The whole ER job search game is 100% about avoiding interaction with HR until you have gotten the job.

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InsiderTrader

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