Help With Cold Emails/Recruiting - Target School but no response
Hi,
I am a sophomore at a target school (Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Wharton/Columbia/UChicago). I did not get into any of the competitive finance clubs on campus, but I am involved in some newer clubs. My cold-emailing is just absolutely terrible. It's been two weeks, and I've sent out 100 emails, but I have only gotten two responses (one saying we should talk at an upcoming info session and go from there, and another telling me to check in later). I was wondering if there's something wrong with my email format:
Hi Name,
My name is [NAME, and I'm a sophomore at X University studying X. I came across your profile on LinkedIn and saw that you're part of X's Investment Banking team and [an X alum or whatever connection].
I would love to know more about your experience and time at X. If you have 15-20 minutes in the next couple of weeks to talk, I would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. I'm happy to work around your schedule.
Best,
I feel like everyone around me is so much farther ahead and is so much more successful in their outreach that I have to be doing something wrong. What advice do you guys have? With no finance clubs with strong club alumni networks, what firms should I target? A lot of the people around me are in competitive clubs and have a mentor/upperclassman who is helping them in the process, and I feel really lost. If anyone has any help or assistance, I would be really grateful, but I'm feeling really lost and unmotivated. Is it really the club connection that matters now?
Have you just copy pasted this format over and over? I'd say you should try personalizing your emails, and if you have not done so, try reaching out to alumni. Try using linkedin as well, since your email can end up under spam in some cases.
Congrats on UChicago!
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