Informational Interviews!
Set up Informational Interviews (only 1 in 40 job seekers do this!)
Informational interviews are amazing. Amazing networking. Amazing industry research. Amazing confidence builders. And yet maybe 2.5% of all careerists take advantage of the opportunity to sit down for 15 minutes with an influencer already working within their career choice.
The One Thing: Through the professional association you joined, or maybe through social media or LinkedIn, find a professional you respect… and ask for a 15 minute coffee meeting or Skype call. Does this work? Yes!
Then put together a list of 5-8 others you can easily approach over the Holidays- – and start networking.
(Borrowed from thesavvyintern blog at youtern.com; thank you Mark Babbitt for this reminder!)
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