Overall, in all of your experiences, what's your percentage of responded emails when you reached out to alumni, and people listed on linkedin?
For me, this has been nearly zero, with the exception of HR. In fact, HR seems to like me and respond to me much faster and more reliably than any alumni analysts/associates/etc.
Does anyone have any idea why this might be? Am I doing something wrong here?
You may want to take more of a "learn about your career" route rather than an up-front "I need a job or will someday" route (even if they know the former is really a disguise for the latter).
From my experience, alumni of both my school and my workplace have been really helpful and seem to welcome the outreach. I'd say hit rates on e-mail have been roughly 75% and LinkedIn around 50%, with all who responded being really nice and willing to chat.
^ about the same success rate for me as well.
So basically point out in a short email that I learned about them from linkedin and:
Would you suggest initially asking for an informational phone convo about their career and background, or ask via email and delete the word phone - hoping they'll initiate the phone idea in their response?
I've also been including my resume in the email - you think that's too upfront initially?
Thanks!
you'll get a better success rate if you have something in common with that person. Maybe you went to the same undergrad. I don't know if I would answer an email from a random person. I mean the person on the receiving end knows your intentions. What is that person's motivation?
I second the suggestions of having some sort of connection with the person you are e-mailing. Alumni connections usually work.
Also, if you can get a warm introduction from someone else (a 3rd party) in your network, that will help a lot. You have to get creative if you go this route - think outside the box.
Regarding attaching your resume, I'd advise against that. Wait until the person asks you for your resume. My approach has been to express interest in the industry/firm said person is working in and ask them if they can share info about their career via a phone call or coffee meeting.
I have a related question:::
It seems that linkedin now only allows you to PM/email someone only if they're a connection (unless you pay $10 per "inmail" )
What are your suggestions to try to obtain their emails or contact those people?
The problem for me is that the companies I want to work for have a lot of alumni, but the locations (not in the city of my school) don't. Thus, if I'm reaching out to people other than HR, we basically have nothing in common in terms of university etc.
So far I've been just using linkedin to figure out the email addresses of these people
Thats still fine. Even if you live on the opposite coast, you can still arrange a phone information interview and talk to them about it. A heck of a lot better than talking to HR
you guys think reaching out now is too early?
I posted a while back asking when a good time to get in touch with people like this is, and most said september. I've sent a few emails out the past week and have gotten zero responses.
Unusually low cold networking email response rate compared to the past (Originally Posted: 07/10/2017)
I recently sent out about six e-mails to alumni in MBB in European offices on last Friday and so far I got 0 response, which is unusual, given that it worked well in the past when I networked with BB bankers in NYC last year (60% response rate). I can't help but wonder what went wrong. I have a couple hypotheses:
1 My e-mail is labeled as spam (can any MBB professional kindly allow me to test this guess?)
2 Consulting professionals are less likely to respond to cold e-mails. 3 My e-mail sucks. 4 I picked a bad time (I sent out the e-mails in the morning in local time)
Do other people experience this problem? What's a typical response rate?
get one of those gmail add ons that lets you see when, if, where, and how many times they opened the email
Sounds good. I just got one of those extension.
Are these add-ons available for the iPhone mail as well?
BUMP
Can you post the text of your email?
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