So, this is what happened: I had forwarded my friend’s (let’s call him A) resume to director (Mr.B) who then said there’s unfortunately no vacancy at his firm, but he sent an introductory email to a director © of another firm ccing to A as well saying something like, “Hi C, here’s A’s resume as discussed”. So, A mailed B asking whether he should directly get in touch with Mr. C or wait for a response from C first. Mr.B mailed back saying A should wait. This was one and half weeks ago and no response yet. A mailed B a few days ago and no response still. I told A to be a bit more aggressive and mail Mr.C directly asking what’s up. But wanted to get the opinions of you guys as well and see how you could go about this situation. I don’t want A to mail Mr.C and then Mr.B finds out and says, “But I told you not to get in touch with him directly, didn’t I?” and things could go very wrong then. I’ll also be then responsible for the situation. So, what’s the best my buddy can do here? Thanks as always !
A can write a nice email to B thanking him for making the introduction and then asking for when B thinks would be appropriate time for A to follow up with B or C in regards with that (in case C is interested).
Hmm, I’d say ease off. If C was interested he would have followed up, B made a nice gesture, didn’t pan out, don’t make it awkward.
Black Swan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hmm, I’d say ease off. If C was interested he > would have followed up, B made a nice gesture, > didn’t pan out, don’t make it awkward. What he said. You don’t want him to go all crying game on C, wrecking things with B as well. If he said don’t contact him, don’t contact him.
Ok, well more details: C was actually travelling when B had sent this email. A told me that he had already sent a thank you email to B and in that same email asked him whether to wait to contact C. That’s when B replied saying he should wait. Now, maybe taking into account the fact that C was travelling, maybe that’s why he was busy to not respond back, you think A can contact him? I mean, I am guessing that since C is high up on the corporate ladder, I don’t think he’s going to be wasting his time bothering about who’s resume he would have received, unless maybe some slight pressure might be applied. This was my advice to my friend. You think its still worth doing it?
Is Mr B a director at the firm you work at? If so, I’d back off as you might come off looking bad in front of a superior. If Mr B has no authority over you then I don’t see a reason for your friend not to try his look with Mr C.
Naa, Mr.B is not related to me in any way. I just happen to know him through someone else and thought maybe he can hook my friend up.
Btw P.S. Mr. B did not explicitly say that A should not get in touch with C. All he responded back was “You should wait”. That’s why I asked my friend to try and give it a shot.
Then your friend should go for it I think. Give Mr C a call if he has his number. I think that’s better than emailing again as it’s harder for Mr C to ignore. If he sends a 2nd email and still gets no reply, he’ll spend the next 2 weeks worrying about it.
I’ll check up with my buddy if he has the number on him. Sounds like a good idea. If no number, I’m just going to ask him to send an email.
So my buddy doesn’t have C’s number, so he called up B to ask him about the status. B said he would check up with C and remind him. I’ve told A that if he doesn’t hear back from anyone in a couple of days, he should get in touch with C directly. Nothing to lose right? Or is there?
Too much alphabet soup here. Use a spoon.
I think that this B is going to wind up regretting that he offered to help. Don’t contact B or C again, that’s my advice. I think it makes you come off desperate and too aggressive.
DoubleDip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that this B is going to wind up regretting > that he offered to help. Don’t contact B or C > again, that’s my advice. I think it makes you > come off desperate and too aggressive. Yeah - I hope you’re not looking for a job from b in the future. He doesn’t want to hear from ‘your buddy’, nor does c at this point. I think this was foolish on your part to encourage additional communication and desparate on ‘your buddies’ part. This will not result in jobs for you or him with b or c at any point in the future.
Should have listened to my advice earlier. Since you didn’t, I’m going to drop a real kernel of wisdom on you and hope you take it to heart: My rule of thumb on follow up etiquette for potential employment leads is as follows: Rephrase it into dating lingo react with a similar strategy. For instance, in your above story and the following post, replace Mr. B and C with “this girl my friend likes” and then reread. You’ll quickly see that it appears very desperate and is clearly a doomed effort. Pushing further now will only destroy all future potential.
Ouchies bro…you are analyzing this way too much…“my buddy” is my buddy…I have already made it clear about what I do in the L3 forum, so if you are inquisitive, you can feel free to check it out. So, I got nothing to do with A, B, C or whoever. I was just asking your opinion and I conveyed my thanks. If you want to take it further and turn it into some CSI episode, go ahead. Maybe you read too many high school forum posts or something.
No, I didn’t mean you ARE dating, dummy. I just said use it as a guiding rule of thumb in these instances. For instance, reword it replacing “job seeker” with “guy” and “potential employer” with “girl he likes”. The same etiquette applies in both instances. So if the job seeker sounds like a desperate guy who’s calling a girl too much that is obviously not interested, then the job search advice would be to back off. It’s simply an analogy used to put the situation into terms everyone is more familiar with.
Aah…my bad then bro…I didn’t catch that… But I wish I was dating though :(…maybe I’ll start another post with that same analogy you outlined. Am sure I’ll get loads of great advises.