How to Track and Follow Up With Boosters

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The 3B7 routine for your actual outreach within a company is called temporal construal theory. When we send the email, we can be ice cold. That reminder for three business days later, that reminder will tell us are they a booster or not? Have we heard from them yet or not? If not, let's try a second person in parallel. We do higher order thinking in advance of a decision than we do in the heat of the moment of making that decision. And so then when we send, let's say we send a note to a booster, you say three business days is about what you expect. if we get no response, do we follow up or not so

Steve Dalton details his systematic process for securing dream interviews.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to generate 40 target employers in 40 minutes

2) Three effective ways to reach out to potential advocates

3) The 6 crucial elements of the 75-word networking email

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— ABOUT STEVE —

Steve Dalton is a senior career consultant and program director for Duke University’s full-time MBA program. He holds his own MBA from the same institution and a chemical engineering degree from Case Western Reserve.

Steve is also the founder of Contact2Colleague, a corporate training firm that helps organizations increase retention, drive sales, and develop internal expertise by teaching their employees to proactively and systematically build better professional relationships.

• Steve’s book: The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster

• Steve’s book: The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More

• Steve’s Website: 2HourJobSearch.com

• Steve’s Twitter: @Dalton_Steve

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• System: NAICS Code

• Database: OneSource Business Browser

• Study: "Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm’s Employee Referral System" by Meta Brown, Elizabeth Setren, and Giorgio Topa

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