Networking Emails - Low Response Rates

I have noticed my response rates to networking emails are typically not very high. Only a few people respond per week, yet I send dozens of emails. 
 

To those who are on the other side, for what reason would you accept or ignore a short 15 minute call from an alum, assuming the email is to the point and brief, around 3-4 sentences? 

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Reason for replying:

  • unique email (in a good way)
  • at least a bit personalised. Try to figure out which group I’m in and give me some reasons why you want to talk to ME
  • common interest (university, sport, home town, non profit,…)

Reasons not to reply

  • lack of time
  • have seen to many emails/LinkedIn where the guy made 0 effort to be accurate
  • don’t always see the email going thru

Hope it helps and I don’t know what you mean by dozen of emails but out of 100 email I used to have 20 replies and 4-5 actual calls. It’s low but it’s a number game.

Good luck!

 

I respond to every email as I don’t get many. I would try to target the people no one else is reaching out to and people in lower tier groups if it’s a firm that gives out a generalist offer. The juniors who run the summer intern recruiting at my firm are not in top groups. If you send the same generic email that someone already got 5 times that day, yours probably doesn’t stand out.

 

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