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You definitely need to have tact about it. When you're a student, you can take meetings with everyone and anyone and blast 100 resumes via email a day. When you're employed, you need to be far more targeted and far more discrete. Remember - almost everyone in this industry in a certain market knows everyone else. Job hunting isn't some horrible crime - everyone does it - but it's worth doing it with class.
"I guess you got lucky" is something you probably shouldn't say to people when networking.
Honestly had to google that
1) Excel VBA for Dummies 2) SQL for Dummies 3) download the free MS SQL Server (i think its 2012 now) and the tools also, from Microsoft 4) do a project where you use those skills...build a spreadsheet that is useful for something (tracking some stocks, pulling live data from yahoo), build a table in the MSSQL Server database to store the data...learn to write VBA and SQL code to insert the data into the empty database you built....code a stored procedure to Select some data and create a report in another tab in your excel workbook.
This will teach you all about how to code VBA and SQL (will force you to learn how to program). Suggest reading a book about "best practices for writing code".
remember..."Necessity is the mother of invention."
Jobs 1, 2 & 3 cold e-mailing/networking. Set up coffee meetings under the premise of an informational conversation to learn more about their company/business and would usually drop a bite that I was looking, which usually led to new introductions/meetings or interviews. Checked in with all prospects every 45 days. On average, took ~6 months each time with 2-3 meetings per week. All three times, getting the job was a function of modified luck....I ended up in the right place at the right time, but had done all the legwork (meetings/check-ins) to get there by making sure I was one of the first people they would think of when an opening popped up.
I would usually try and time it around something happening with the company, or as a thank--you follow up for a new connection they facilitated. So either "hey john, great news on your new lease/press/deal/hire, looks like a really interesting project. I'm still looking to jump on a development team at a well-capitalized and active developer like your shop, please let me know if anything changes regarding plans to expand your team." or if a follow up, thank them for the intro, let them know you had a good meeting and then say the same thing.
Saw the job posted on Select Leaders > went to the company's website to see who was most senior acquisition person > figured out what the email address would be > sent intro email with resume > got reply next day that they forward to HR > week later HR sets up interview > week later go in and interview > 5 days later received offer. In total that process took 24 days, and email to first day on job was 40 days.