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Good morning and happy Monday @channel! Hope you all had a fun-filled Halloween weekend As you get more acclimated to the search, the main Job Search channel and office hours are going to be your best resources. I will continue to drop some announcements and resources here .Please continue to utilize the Custom Outreach Message form!!!!!! Many of you have asked for help on finding contacts and writing outreach messages on your own-love the growthFollowing are a list of resources that will help you out with this:
Canvas Course on Finding Contacts to Reach Out To
Canvas Course on Writing Outreach Messages & Emails
Canvas Course on Outreach Message Follow Up
One Pager on Sourcing Contacts
Job Search Bootcamp Series: Outreach (Attached below)
Need any help and want live support? Please make sure to attend the Job Search Office Hours! Schedule can be found in the Job Search Calendar ** To meet with me this week please sign up for any of **this week's group office hour**s. **Following are some ideas on what to come prepared to discuss and work on with me for these sessions:\
Elevator pitch "Tell Me About Yourself"
Outreach messages
Finding more jobs by expanding your search resources
Whatever YOU want to talk about!
I'll also randomly post in this channel throughout the next 2 weeks zoom links to join me for quick chats while I am free.As always, I have an open door policy on slack should you ever need anything Let's kick off this week with our best foot forward everyone!!!!! Answering DMs from Friday/over the weekend soon
Happy Friday @channel and welcome to the job search! I’m your careers staff lead and dedicated partner during the first month of your job search @channelOn Monday (10/18) at 10am PST/1pm EST we will be getting together to quickly cover your first month in the job search, the tools you should be using, your game plan for the week of the 18th, and most importantly showing you HOW EASY it is to have a Customized Outreach Message created to assist your job applications! **Your Job Search Bootcamp won't begin till October 25th **but in the meantime I will work with each of your 1:1 to give you a head start on your job search For those of you that won’t be able to join us, I will be sharing a recording of the session after the live kickoff concludes **What you need to do today/this weekend: **
Take another look, if you haven't already, at Getting Started in the Job Search guide
Fill out the Job Search Intent Form if you haven’t already done so
Start looking for jobs (Use this Sourcing 1 Pager for some great resources to try out) and onboard any job opportunities you are interested in to your Job Tracker so we can start your job search in an organized manner
Looking forward to working with you! If you have any questions feel free to DM me or drop them in the !You will receive a direct message from me shortly as well
Happy Saturday @channel (apologies my scheduled message did not go out yesterday!) and welcome to your first month of Job Search! I want to leave you with a couple reminders on what to expect next week.Please add the Lambda Job Search Program Schedule** **to your calendar so you can start planning ahead to attend all the awesome job search sessions we have in store for you the next couple weeks For those of you that won’t be able to attend the live sessions **we will be recording each session and sharing them in this channel. **Feel free to utilize your Job Search Support Session (won't kickoff till November 1st) or the Job Search Office Hours to cover any topics of the recorded sessions with our team and your fellow graduates.What you need to do this weekend:
Take another look, if you haven't already, at Getting Started in Your Job Search guide
Fill out the Job Search Intent Form if you haven’t already done so
Come prepared for Monday's kickoff session with job opportunities you want a custom outreach plan created for (Make sure you have applied to them first and uploaded them to your Job Tracker)
**Here are some facts to get you pumped up for tomorrow... **1. Outreach is the key difference in getting a job in 3 months vs. 8 months, which equates to roughly $21,000 in salary! 2. Lambda grads with **1 interview in the first 30 days are 3x more likely to get a job in 90 days. **This interview doesn't have to be at your dream company, in fact, it is better if it isn't. If you only work toward one goal, let it be this! 3. Every time you submit a Custom Outreach Message request our team will create a personalized outreach plan for you to use with any job opportunity and find the contact information for the best point of contact(s) at the company you should reach out to. We got this!!! If you have any questions in the meantime please respond to this or message me privately.Job Search Bootcamp Schedule (Oct 25-Oct 29): Monday @ 10amPST: Kickoff for New Grads Tuesday @ 10amPST: Job Finding & Organizing **Wednesday @ 10amPST: **Cold Outreach & Contact Sourcing **Thursday @ 10amPST: **Informational Interviews & Elevator Pitch Friday @10amPST: Open Q&A with Beto*Schedule can also be found on the Job Search Office Hours Calendar!
