- How to keep yourself from taking it personally when you do everything right and don't get any response. You use the right connection. You make it clear that you're looking for guidance and advice. You make yourself totally available to work within their time schedule. And still, you don't get so much as a 'sorry I'm busy'. You simply get no response! It is tough when you make the warm call or outreach using a mutual contact as the connection and get no response. It's hard not to personalize it or somehow feel rejected.
- How many ways can you approach someone to try to get that meeting without feeling like a nag. You get no response the first time, and after waiting a few days or a week, you try to come up with a clever way to connect with your network contact and score that meeting. No response this time can really cut into your self-esteem.
Back to the facts. This is a tough market. People are getting inundated with resumes and requests to network. I choose to believe that most of those on the other end want to reply and be helpful and just can't find their way around the volume.
When networking works, it works. When it doesn't, the most important thing for me to remember is that it's not about me or what I bring to the party because more often than not the person I'm trying to network into doesn't know me. It's about the market. It's about the volume. It's about the person at the other end.
So, I keep at it knowing that I've gotten every job I've ever had through my network, and keep the faith that it will happen this time as well.
No comments:
Post a Comment