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You got the interview. You wrote the thank you note. You followed up with an email. You called the recruiter. What's next? 

Scott and Andrew talk about the Do's and Don'ts of following up for interviews and networking.

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Job-seekers radio Andrew, and I'm Scott this production is meant to provide you meaningful support to find great careers faster. Whether you're working or not today on job seekers radio. We're talking about follow up. How much is too much and win. Can we cross that line to where we become an annoying pestering fool, right? Rather than an exceptionally qualified. Awesome candidate exactly follow up as one of my favorite, topics. I've said many times you may have heard it in in prior podcasts. I'm sure you will hear it in the future for me. Follow up is the most important step of any process if you aren't following up. Well, you're you don't know if it truly works other than Donal evidence. And I'm not gonna get into a lot of debate over this. I've just find that if you follow up in a thoughtful manner that the chances of success, whatever it is. You're trying to do. To increase if you're thinking that it's too much. It probably is. Yeah. Put yourself in their shoes. How often would you wanna be followed up with and how much and what method and what does that look like kind of us a little bit of empathy and put yourself in their position. Sure. And understand the context of what your follow it might be related to. So I've been unemployed several times been laid off just from the nature of the work that I've done and the result is I end up looking for work afterwards. I've done this many times. I've also been a hiring manager. I tend to see people behaving toward me when I was looking for an employee similarly to how I was behaving as well. And so as I look at the things that work for me, the things that don't work for me from these candidates. It's sort of bringing in full circle. And I. Get a different understanding of how I might have been coming across. If I was following up too often or not often enough what I was saying as I was following up. All of these things came into better, focus, so short of becoming a hiring manager all of a sudden, you will want to put your own activities through that filter to see how it works on the other side. And you'll never know exactly what the other person might be thinking. And that's okay. Think of all the times where follow up could make a difference in your career. That's how we're approaching this could relate to an interview it could just be you try to build relationships inside your organization, it could be you wanting to do career change, whatever the context is networking interviewing what have you? This podcast episode is really dedicated to help you get better at that activity in terms of how you approach people and the approach really does make. Difference. If your intent is to build strategic relationships that you want to incubate over time, you're always going to be seeking people that fit that that mold rather than maybe tactical series of things you do just to get a job or an offer or. Yes. Afind out status on your application. Whatever it might be your goal is different. When you want to establish these relationships, it's the relationship that becomes the goal that what a successful relationship looks like in this context is going to take time to build all of that changes the way you're defining the road to success. So the approach does shift really quite quite dramatically with that said, you're also going to want to think about what strategically could benefit both sides of that networking conversation over time as I'm tal...