The Career Builder's Podcast
Seeking Out and Leveraging Informational Interviews with Stacy Pollack
Episode Summary
Stacy Pollack, a career development specialist and writer for Glassdoor, joins Mike and Lisa to discuss how informational interviews can be used to build careers.
Episode Notes
Topics Covered
- Stacy Pollack - Career development specialist
- An informational interview is seeking out somebody in a job that might potentially interest you to learn more about the job
- Can have different benefits based on career stage - can help when you're coming out of school without experience to build credibility
- Treat like a sales cycle, build your funnel, keep track of conversations and responses
- Important to create filters for yourself to avoid analysis paralysis
- How to get over nerves of sending the first email
- Be conscious of how you're coming across, if you were on the receiving end how would you feel if you got this email
- Strategy for the conversation
- Gauge the conversation to make a career ask
- Additional benefits outside of the job search - good long term career strategy
- Dorie Clark - Entrepreneurial You - https://dorieclark.com/
- Don't be afraid to take advantage of opportunities to speak to those who are further in their career
- "You don't get what you don't ask for"
- How taking a risk in her career paid off
- Career Advice:
- Take career one step at a time and be adaptable
- Don't rely on your education, keep expectations low and prove yourself
- Seek discomfort
- "Building your career takes time and is a journey not a destination"