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I always feel conflicted when I read about strategies like this. On the one hand, it's creative and effective for marketing yourself. It's also quite simple. O

I always feel conflicted when I read about strategies like this. On the one hand, it's creative and effective for marketing yourself. It's also quite simple. On the other hand, it has a spammy quality that I think might turn many people off of you. I wonder if this strategy is only really viable for marketing/sales jobs...

stopachka 12y ago
Sam, I feel you, but this is the developer in you speaking! I had similar reservations, for example when it related to following up with companies after they gave no response. I tested this out, and emailed some companies close to 8 times. Guess what happened? Every single company I followed up with that relentlessly replied, and replied positively. 1 Month in and I had an offer from Uber, and interviews with Evernote, Google, AirBnB (had to email them the most) the list goes on. If you're on the search I definitely suggest testing your assumptions
- personlurking 12y ago
  "Every single company I followed up with that relentlessly replied, and replied positively." Any chance you could state this in another way? I felt like you were about to say something then put a period. Thx
  - stopachka 12y ago
    Hiya person lurking :). Other then going into the details of the contents of what I wrote, I can't think of much more to write there. Do you have anything you'd like to know?
    - personlurking 12y ago
      Unfortunately, it seems like I might have a lot of questions to get the story straight for myself. It would be a lot of back-and-forth commenting. Thanks for the reply, though.
- rhizome 12y ago
  Huh, so to me that reads as a list of companies who drop the ball.
  - dreamfactory2 12y ago
    There are millions of balls, a few manage to get through. Nobody is going to go around actively catching them.
  - stopachka 12y ago
    Interesting point rhizome -- I guess it can be looked at that way, but the problem is that at the initial stage, we want to the companies more then they want us. Then the question becomes, just because other people are dropping the ball, does that mean you're not going to get what you want?
pja 12y ago
It's the kind of thing that works really well until everyone is doing it, at which point you'll have to try something else if you want to stand out from the crowd!
aleksandrm 12y ago
Completely agree, and I think it might turn more off than on. For example, she states that she would now write the subject line as: "Learn how I increased X for company Y". To me it seems like a very spammy subject line, that has nothing to do with the intention of the writer trying to be hired.

stopachka 12y ago

Sam, I feel you, but this is the developer in you speaking! I had similar reservations, for example when it related to following up with companies after they gave no response. I tested this out, and emailed some companies close to 8 times. Guess what happened? Every single company I followed up with that relentlessly replied, and replied positively. 1 Month in and I had an offer from Uber, and interviews with Evernote, Google, AirBnB (had to email them the most) the list goes on. If you're on the search I definitely suggest testing your assumptions

personlurking 12y ago
"Every single company I followed up with that relentlessly replied, and replied positively." Any chance you could state this in another way? I felt like you were about to say something then put a period. Thx
- stopachka 12y ago
  Hiya person lurking :). Other then going into the details of the contents of what I wrote, I can't think of much more to write there. Do you have anything you'd like to know?
  - personlurking 12y ago
    Unfortunately, it seems like I might have a lot of questions to get the story straight for myself. It would be a lot of back-and-forth commenting. Thanks for the reply, though.
rhizome 12y ago
Huh, so to me that reads as a list of companies who drop the ball.
- dreamfactory2 12y ago
  There are millions of balls, a few manage to get through. Nobody is going to go around actively catching them.
- stopachka 12y ago
  Interesting point rhizome -- I guess it can be looked at that way, but the problem is that at the initial stage, we want to the companies more then they want us. Then the question becomes, just because other people are dropping the ball, does that mean you're not going to get what you want?

pja 12y ago

It's the kind of thing that works really well until everyone is doing it, at which point you'll have to try something else if you want to stand out from the crowd!

aleksandrm 12y ago

Completely agree, and I think it might turn more off than on. For example, she states that she would now write the subject line as: "Learn how I increased X for company Y". To me it seems like a very spammy subject line, that has nothing to do with the intention of the writer trying to be hired.