From the course: Informational Interviewing
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Record, analyze, evaluate, and improve results
From the course: Informational Interviewing
Record, analyze, evaluate, and improve results
- If done right, informational interviews will lead to the next step in your career so you need to make sure you get all you can from them. You want to improve your process with each meeting. So let me teach you how to take a step back and record, analyze and evaluate each informational interview experience. Immediately following your informational interview, find a quiet place to record all the information you've gathered. Review the notes you took and elaborate on them as much as possible to help you remember details when you later analyze your results and attach the business cards of anyone you interacted with. Write down your initial impression of the meeting including the good, bad and ugly. Rate your experience on a scale of one to 10, 10 being the highest. Make some quick notes on what you should have asked to get better results. Once you get home, you need to organize the information. I've included a spreadsheet in the exercise files that includes a list of questions you'll…
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