Job Strategy Group 4/11/16

How to Request Informational Meetings

Requesting Info Meetings: Outline

1. Common Methods of Finding Employment

2. Top Methods of Finding Employment

3. What are Informational Meeting

4. How do Informational Meetings fit in with the Top Methods

5. Hands On Tool:1. Do’s and Don’ts of Requesting Informational Meetings– Creating some

Outlines for Requests

Have you Applied for a posted job online?

• How many lately?

Online Postings…

• How many lately?

The Good News, Online Postings are only one of MANY methods of finding you next job.

• How many lately?

More Good News, There aren’t that many methods of finding you next job. (It’s a very manageable number)

• Other Methods of Finding Employment:• Richard Bolles, “What Color is your Parachute”

• Jay Block / RW!, “5 Steps to Rapid Employment”:

• Top Three Methods1. Networking – 60%+

2. Target Marketing – 50%

3. Job Clubs – 40%

Informational Meetings: A Key tool for Effective Networking & Target Marketing

• What is an informational Meeting (or Informational Interview)?

• What isn’t an informational Meeting?

• How do you ask, and get, Informational Meetings?...

Activity: Requesting an Informational Meeting

• By Phone – What to say live or on a voice mail.

• By Email – What to include (and not include) in an email requesting an informational meeting

• By Mail – What to include in your request.

Meeting RequestDo’s and Don’t’s

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Meeting RequestDo’s and Don’t’s

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Meeting RequestDo’s and Don’t’s

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Next Steps: Applying what you’ve learned today…

• What are your next steps related to:• Networking

• Target Marketing

• Informational Interviewing

• Next Weeks Session: Conducting Informational Meetings. Register at: http://conductinfomeetings.eventbrite.com

• 1-1 Assistance: jobstrategy@rochesterworks.org