3 years of networking lessons distilled in 3 minutes

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3 years of networking experience distilled in 3 minutes

I’ve been networking my way to jobs for the past 3 years.

6 jobs later, and not one was gotten through with my resume.

So yea, networking is all I know, and it’s all I need to.

Until AI replaces all of us, I’ll be sending cold emails, not cold applications.

But it wasn’t all smooth sailing from the beginning.

I made a ton of mistakes networking and job hunting.

And recently, as I started coaching, I’ve been getting a lot of concern’s that are honestly, not worth sweating over.

So I figured we can address any potential concerns in this article.

Today, I’ll condense all the lessons I learned throughout my 3 years of networking into this 3 minute article.

If I miss anything, reply and ask away!

17 Lessons from 3 years of networking

1. Job fairs are a waste of time. Unless it’s specific to one company, or specific to an industry, skip it.

2. Changing that job title or that one bullet point on your resume doesn’t make a difference, don’t overthink it. Just follow a template instead.

3. Recruiters spend 7-8 seconds and scan resumes is an “F” a pattern. So, include your most important info at the top, and on the left hand side.

4. Always include a cover letter, just in case.

5. The best source of networking events at school aren’t career centres, it’s student clubs. Join as many of them as you can.

6. Networking is transactional, and that’s okay. People aren’t dumb, they know why you’re asking for a coffee chat.

7. The best way to not appear desperate when networking is to give value first, before asking for it.

8. Don’t have value to give? Just be curious about them, making someone feel important is the simplest form of value anyone can give.

9. Never, never ask for referral in the first message, or first coffee chat.

10. Wait until the 2nd or 3rd conversation to ask for something.

11. The easiest is way to set up a 2nd convo is by asking advice from the 1st one, acting on it, and then asking for feedback.

12. LinkedIn DMs don’t work, send cold emails instead.

13. Your cold email should be talking more about them than it is you.

14. Always follow up 2 times max before moving on.

15. Don’t wait for job opening to start networking, you should be scheduling coffee chats when there isn’t anything yet available.

16. You can do everything right, and still get ghosted/rejected. Networking is still a number’s game at the end of the day.

17. Be creative with your messages, change up the subject line, attach some previous work, or even record a 60 second intro video. There’s no “rule” for networking, do what it takes to stand out.

If you have any questions to any of these points and want me dive deeper, my calendar is always open.

Schedule a meeting whenever and we can chat!

If you like these quick-list style lessons, let me know too!

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-Michael Ly

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