All right cool so in this side by side we are actually going to start finding networking targets as
we are looking for maybe informal interviews and connections with recruiters so why don't we just start
with informal interviews.
Let's say that we're looking to network with people in the gaming industry.
Probably what I'm going to do is go up here and I'm going to search by people and then I'm going to
use a couple of Boolean search techniques which you can check out in the other module but things like
let's say gaming gaming and San Francisco.
Let's just see what that comes up with.
Call So there's lots of people in gaming here.
Looks like these are Logitech.
That's obviously a big company.
Here's a game designer so we might as well might just go ahead and start opening these.
These people let's say we want to get more into this game design type of thing.
Then we can go ahead and see if there's any other people that are more in the designing side of things.
So let's just go down.
No not on this page.
Try to get maybe two or three different two or three different contacts.
This person might be a good person to contact.
Let's see the global head of gaming a YouTube we can't access him because he won't see his name.
This person would be a good general manager of gaming at Skullcandy.
Here's Xbox from Microsoft so.
Ok cool.
So what I've done is you see I have right.
I've held on the command key on the Mac as I clicked these people's names which means that I've opened
up all these tabs so I'm going to leave this search field open here and then I'm going to actually just
go down and while Mark might be a good connection to find what I can also see down here is that these
people also viewed you really start to see that there's there's lots of people that you're that you're
now seeing here.
So here's a game studio director to open their profile.
Here's a game developer here's a game designer multimedia games game designer game design.
I mean look at all these people we've now found in game design.
So some of them their settings are going to be different than others like you'll see here that Mark
is not allowing us to connect with him.
But then when you look at Mike he is so with Mike you can go ahead and make the connection.
You're going to definitely want to send a personalized note.
I would probably do something like Hi Mike.
You look like an expert in the gaming and game design fields.
I'm hoping we can connect.
Ok cool.
So actually the thing is you're going to probably send a personalized connection.
You want to start with something kind of nice just to endear the person to your cause you know give
them a compliment because you have mutual interests.
I like using the word network here so you can say things like I'm just I'm hoping we can network.
That's pretty unaggressive which is nice.
I might actually change us up and say the field is extremely interesting to me and I'm hoping we can
count on it.
That's probably a nice message and actually what I would do is I would go ahead and cut open up or a
open apple see.
So just copy it.
And now when you go through and you see Diana Joe Michael you know all these different people that you
can here's Robin a person you can connect with that you can actually just go ahead and and basically
paste copy paste this in and within a few minutes you should be able to send a lot of connection requests.
I would probably just either use the pile use the friend selection here.
So I'm actually not going to connect with them because you know it's not really trying to do.
But basically you've seen the strategy so you find these people and then you can see on the side.
All these other people who have very similar profiles and that's one way that you can target people
for informal interviews or just for networking and you can start using the CC method connect chat meet
and mushroom to start building your network.
And for example the gaming industry I assume to shut these profiles down because you know how this works
now.
All right.
And then we're going to try something different.
Now what we're going to do is we're going to look up recruiters.
So you might say Ghaemi and recruiter and so now you see you have a technical recruiter at Apple house.
And then similarly you can go ahead and do this
computerized gaming equipment and these are recruiters so there's another one.
These were lucky that all these recruiters are open to connecting.
So you can see you can send them a connection request but easily you can go here and send all these
people connection requests that you might not be able to connect with.
If you open up their profile.
So any you've got a player out that a little bit but basically you're seeing now that within a very
short period of time you can really build out your network in a particular area both by searching people
that are good targets for informal interviews and also for people who are recruiters.