Valuable insight from AKQA on following up and utilizing connections

Near the end of my visit to AKQA two former ducks, Alex Weresh & Kim Uong, gave us some real, straight-up advice about networking and how it pays off. 

Here are some tidbits I took away from that conversation:

“The window of opportunity is larger when you know someone”-Alex

“Reach out! Don’t be afraid to cold email!, you want to get people to invest in you”- Kim

“If they don’t respond after the first email, try again a bit later-if they don’t respond to the second one, avoid a third email. Just wait and see”- Kim

“Prove to your connections that you are smart, but not in an annoying ‘know-it-all’ way”-Alex

“Remember, it’s good to connect with recruiters but a recruiter is NOT your best ally-network TF out of the place you are interested in”-Alex

-Noah Wilskey