All right cool let's talk rocket fuel in this case we're talking about the informal chat.
It's a very powerful tool to help you sustain an excellent career.
Easel did a study and what we found is that when you actually reach out to actually create informal
chats with people that you haven't met before junior level people will respond and accept chats roughly
56 percent of the time mid-level people will respond and accept chats roughly 22 percent of the time
and senior level people will respond and accept chats that's roughly 9 percent of the time.
Now this is different in different industries.
It's different for different countries a little bit.
And also this assumes that you have a really excellent LinkedIn profile resume and the other tools that
easel presents in its career management modules but that's about the right that's about the right statistics
just so that you know.
All right now if you need to know actually how to get these chats go and check out easels modules c
c m m which talks about finding people online and then inviting them to actually chat with you.
All right.
Once you have gotten a chat with some professional that's interesting to you this is how it should go.
First you should probably have the chat either via Skype video chat or telephone and maybe in-person
and the chat should take about five to 10 minutes so it's not very long.
Now here are the things that you want to be doing during a chat.
You want to be asking them.
You want to ask them about their career goals.
You want to ask them about their professional history about what they're interested in and then you
also want to tell them about your goals.
You want to tell them what youre interested in in a little bit about your professional history.
You do not want to be asking for a job asking for sales.
That's not the right thing to do.
With an informal chat the way that an expert will use an informal chat is they're going to take this
information just a little bit and notes on the conversation and they're going to create a contact for
this person in their job search CRM application and actually add these as notes to this person in their
job search CRM then set a little task for yourself too down the line.
Reach out to this person and just see how they're doing.
Here's an example.
If Jonas was in an informal chat with Troy and Troy said I'm taking a big exam to become a certified
public accountant in December and let's say it's it's July right now then what Jonas might do is set
himself a reminder to say hey Troys taking this exam in December let me send him a little reminder to
say good luck.
And then in December he sends that little e-mail and Troys going to think man Jones is a pretty cool
guy and in the future Troy is going to be more likely to remember Jonas if any opportunities come up
that might be interesting to him.