would I be overusing my contact?

Here is the situation.

A couple of weeks ago (4-5) I reached out to a certain contact within the industry to help me connect with a company that was hiring. The contact tried to help but the position was no longer open. I found out this morning of another position with another company and the contact has several connections with that firm.

Would it be too much to ask for help again after a few weeks?

I cold emailed this contact last summer and have only used them twice so far (the latest being this summer)

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Definetly not. Its not like you are hampering him every other day for help with a nonexistant position. Plus, if you want the job you have to use the network available to you. I extensively used one of my contacts (perhaps to the point of being a little annoying) , but in the end my persistance landed me a job.

 

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