Best tips for cold email/LinkedIn message

I'm a non target trying to break into IB. Tried to network through Linkedin and sent a bunch of cold messages for a quick call to several guys from the same BB, which were pretty generic tbh. One of them, an associate replied and told me I should talk to the CEO instead 🤣. Any suggested response here? Am i just blackballed from this BB?

Anyway what are your best tips so this does not happen again? Greatly appreciated

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Either ur message was super cringe worthy or the associate is a huge dick lmfao

 
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Based on your profile I'm assuming your post-graduation? I was in the same boat. Was non-target, no internships, got into IB at a decent boutique. (below street salary, above street bonus)

Honestly, it's just numbers man and decide what you're going for pretty early on. I didn't give a shit about BB cause I'm not a prestige whore, so reached out to a bunch of boutiques and got a job pretty quickly.

If you want a BB job though, it's going to be harder. I had some BB MD's who said they liked me and put my name forward but didn't amount to shit, so I'd say reach out to a shit load of people and hope you get lucky. 

 

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