Impressively Bad Networking

I received a LinkedIn message that made me laugh it was so bad. A student in a god awful MBA, literally a cut beneath directional state schools and twice as expensive to boot, sent me a message in which they misspelled my name, misspelled the word resume and asked me about being a broker. Needless to say that connection request got ignored. Anybody else have any stories?

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Have a friend who works at a prominent HF and did not do IB out of college - constantly gets emails from students saying they're interested in HF's investment banking program

Check your bank lists, kids

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Had a networking call with a student attending a local university. After a minute of small talk, I said “thanks for reaching out. Happy to help you and answer any questions you have” then the student sighed and said “I guess you can tell me a bit about yourself.. but are you guys taking on other interns?”

Another time a student told me he didn’t care to get to know me and that he’s curious if he knows anyone hiring.

 
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Had a networking call with a student attending a local university. After a minute of small talk, I said "thanks for reaching out. Happy to help you and answer any questions you have" then the student sighed and said "I guess you can tell me a bit about yourself.. but are you guys taking on other interns?"

Another time a student told me he didn't care to get to know me and that he's curious if he knows anyone hiring.

God that sounds awful, where did you say was hiring northwestern mutual or Burger King.

 

guyfromct

I received a LinkedIn message that made me laugh it was so bad. A student in a god awful MBA, literally a cut beneath directional state schools and twice as expensive to boot, sent me a message in which they misspelled my name, misspelled the word resume and asked me about being a broker. Needless to say that connection request got ignored. Anybody else have any stories?

I hope this never happened.

 
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I don't understand how people can be this transactional Lmfao

main character syndrome.

Many people are just totally oblivious to the fact that there are other people in the world who exist for reasons other than helping them.

 

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