{"id":72,"date":"2014-09-29T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/?page_id=72"},"modified":"2025-02-25T18:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T18:07:27","slug":"networking","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/strategies\/networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Networking aka Informational Interviewing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"98\">Dread networking? Instead, try an informational interview! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themuse.com\/advice\/3-steps-to-a-perfect-informational-interview\">Lily Zhang\u2019s article<\/a> explains how.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"100\" data-end=\"158\">Your network already includes valuable contacts who can:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"339\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n<li data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"198\">Share insights on target companies.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"240\">Advise on your career and job search.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"241\" data-end=\"269\">Provide resume feedback.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"270\" data-end=\"303\">Refer you to key connections.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"304\" data-end=\"339\" data-is-last-node=\"\">Introduce you to hiring managers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The information below, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/strategies\/onlineresources\/\">Online Resources<\/a>, will help you as you prepare to network and conduct networking meetings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8FsUm5noXEM\">Steve Dalton&#8217;s How to Conduct An Informational Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/questions-ask-during-networking-meeting-get-referred-hiring-roy-young\/\">22 Informational Interview Questions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/What-is-Networking-and-How-to-Network.doc\">What is Networking and How to Network<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Developing-a-Target-Company-List.docx\">Developing a Target Company List<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/FIG.docx\">What is Your Preferred Functional Area, Industry, and Geography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Networking-for-Introverts.pdf\">Networking for Introverts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.owen.prd.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/03\/Informational-Interviewing.doc\">How to Conduct an Informational Interview<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dread networking? Instead, try an informational interview! Lily Zhang\u2019s article explains how. Your network already includes valuable contacts who can: Share insights on target companies. Advise on your career and job search. Provide resume feedback. Refer you to key connections. Introduce you to hiring managers. The information below, as well as the Online Resources, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-right-sidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/1869"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}