Information Interviews (Informational Meetings) are key for job search success. Tied to networking and target marketing. This RochesterWorks! Job Strategy Group presentation includes participant strategies for requesting these meetings.

1. Job Strategy Group
4/11/16
How to Request Informational Meetings

2. 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

3. Have you Applied for a posted job online?
• How many lately?

4. Online Postings…
• How many lately?

5. The Good News, Online Postings are only one
of MANY methods of finding you next job.
• How many lately?

6. 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 Methods
1. Networking – 60%+
2. Target Marketing – 50%
3. Job Clubs – 40%

7. 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?...

8. 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.

9. Meeting Request
Do’s and Don’t’s
Phone
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10. Meeting Request
Do’s and Don’t’s
email
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11. Meeting Request
Do’s and Don’t’s
mail
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12. 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