What is the right timing? Cold Mails & LinkedIn messages - Tactics!
Hey Monkeys,
When trying to network, students send a lot of potential cold emails and/or LinkedIn messages. When are you the most reluctant to reply to them or find them annoying? What is the most approachable method to send them?
Personally, I am trying to send emails between Tuesday and Thursday (I think that Monday emails might annoy people and on Friday they could not care less about a student begging them for a call), and within business hours (after lunchtime, trying to avoid morning or late evening emails). What do you think about this tactic?
I am interested to hear opinion of Analyst and Associates, who get plenty of these messages especially during the recruitment season.
Think you're on the right track as far as not sending emails/LI messages on Monday or Friday. I would actually recommend sending emails in the morning though. That's usually when I'm least busy (9:00-11:00 AM) and have a chance to read it and, if it looks like you're doing things right, (ie. actually looked me up on LinkedIn, personalized the message a bit, didn't just reuse an old message, which I can tell due to font differences) I'll send a quick response within about a half hour of getting it.
Thank you very much for your response.
In case I do not hear back from a person. What is a reasonable time to wait before a follow-up?
Also, would you follow-up in the same email or write a new one without mentioning the prior message (to not come across as rude/entitled).
I’d say wait a week before following up and definitely follow up on the same thread as the previous message so I can see what your first message said without having to search my inbox for it. Also, if you send your follow up in a different message and your first email got deleted, I won’t know what your first email said.
stupid question. It doesn’t matter.
lmao I did the complete opposite of what's supposed to work. I literally just did copy and paste for about 600 messages and pulled an offer so I mean it doesn't really matter. Just do well on the networking call itself.
I've personally had some success with this, but also people calling me out on taking shortcuts. Probably has the benefit of reaching more people quickly, but has drawbacks definitely. I wouldn't recomend this unless you're in a pinch.
Who cares if people call you out? If it works it works friend. Do not focus on others' opinions of you, I got judged for this as well, but it ended up getting me the offer. All analysts that responded to me told me that they understood how tough the process is.
Doesn’t matter when you send the email. I’ll see it regardless and respond as long as you’re at least a somewhat realistic candidate and personalize it a tiny bit.
What has stood out to me recently is students who are good at setting up the logistics on their second email. I’ll give my availability that week in my response, so ideally students follow up with a time for a call, their resume, and phone number. Bonus points for sending a calendar invite. It’s really basic stuff but so is 90% of banking.
Also—block off an entire hour for a call. Decent chance my VP calls me at 5:55 and I can’t call you until until 6:20, instead of our planned 6:00 call, for example.
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