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Avoid the holiday season

I disagree with the holiday seasons if its analysts. If VP and MD, avoid holiday season unless you want to shoot simple holiday greeting.

Best times for analysts/associates is after 8pm/9pm on slow days(how to know whether its a slow day? you cant, its hit or miss). Email too early in the afternoon and your email will be lost forever/forgotten to responded to. Email too late and risk them missing the email in the office(aka, they wont have the convenience of responding on their computers quick/phone chat, and theyll forget about the email the next day when they're bombarded with other stuff)

Gotta be lucky, but you can skew odds if your favor if you try to.

I had good luck this season calling HR and expressing my interest/asking to speak with some analysts. In many cases, HR would email analysts/associates that same day facilitating a call.

Many emails both to HR and analysts went unanswered, but calls were much more successful. I would be careful with cold calling analysts though. Good luck.

not for networking, but good post on getting your resume in front of their eyes, no matter the time nor day: http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/top-tip-get-any-md-to-read-your-r…

thanks for all the input so far.

Also, if you're at a target, where there are tons of alumni in the field, is it more efficient for you to follow up with the non-responders, or move on to others?

I'm looking to send several initial cold e-mails next Tuesday (I feel like sending them on a Friday wouldn't be good and they're not ready to send on Thursday).

Are you guys saying I should wait until after New Years? Until maybe January 8?

They will mainly be targeted at College alumni. One I'm sending to a friend who is an analyst (I'm 1.5 years out of school) so I don't think he will be a problem, but for all the cold e-mails, I wanted to check.

It depends greatly on what field they are in. I get the most responses after the market is closed, which is after 1 in LA. For me, IB has been hit or miss at all times of the day.

I'm actually targeting Consulting firms, so the time might be less of a factor. I usually aim for about 10 AM with them. I figure if I send it super early, they'll see it really quick when they do their morning email check and then go onto more important emails with the thought of responding to mine, but it ends up being forgotten. I figure by 10AM they've settled in and will take more notice of an email...

I received a lot of responses over the summer

Haha dude- next Tuesday is what the 11th? Holiday season for the analysts and associates begins the 22nd if they are lucky. You are fine to send it then. When you frame your email I would say something like "be possible to speak with you later in the week or sometime after the holidays" if you want to be careful

Sounds good, thanks for the clarification, would that apply to higher ups to? I have a fairly tight alumni community at my disposal and I don't really have any second thoughts about emailing managers/partners etc, just more reservation about when to do it...

Thanks again!

I would send emails to everyone until the 19th. After that I wouldn't bother until after new years.