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I would advise them to not cold-email students about 'Engineering fellowships' which upon further inspection are just resumed workshops and interview prep. If y
by apcragg 9y ago
I would advise them to not cold-email students about 'Engineering fellowships' which upon further inspection are just resumed workshops and interview prep. If you want students to take your company and service seriously, don't send out disingenuous emails about 'impressive backgrounds'. It makes your company look like one of those pay-to-join academic honor societies whose emails everybody[1] ignores.
[1] Obvious not everybody or there wouldn't be a business.
- kevintxwu 9y agoThat's a good point that the word fellowship is potentially misleading. Although...I do want to clarify we actually offer advice on project development, the interview prep goes to a reasonable technical depth, and you are connected with other engineers at top companies. So in many ways, it is still a fellowship. We struggle a little with how to describe ourselves because we're not quite just career coaching but calling ourselves an accelerator is too nebulous. We try our best not to be intrusive - if you don't mind, could you actually email me on the things you disliked the most about our cold email? We definitely want to make the changes we can to be more well-mannered here. I'm at kevin@pathrise.com. If anybody else has any questions as well, feel free to use the contact information above.
- apcragg 9y agoI replied to the original email you sent me with some thoughts. I want to note here that I like the idea of Pathrise but was just a bit put off by the initial email.