In fact, every single time I see a career coach advising you to ditch all job search efforts to focus solely on cold networking, it makes me cringe.
Because as someone who was busy working her tails off to convert an internal promotion, going to MBA classes on the weekend, writing her greencard application at night, while raising a young kid at home, I did not have time to “network”.
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Neither did I believe that sending out 100s of cold networking messages in hopes of landing “the one” referral was worth my time.
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As I made my career transition from Energy to Tech, all my interviews… at Google, Meta, Stripe, Doordash, McKinsey… and finally at Amazon, came without cold networking (or referrals).
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Dozens of my clients who landed $200k+ offers in the last 1.5 years have done it without sending a single cold networking message on LinkedIn.
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- From ICs to Directors at F500.
- From $100k to $300k offers.
- From the US to India.
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3% focus on a hyper-targeted Resume
33% focus on a keyword-rich LinkedIn
33% focus on networking with close network
1% luck.
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