Networking Pro-Tip: Asking for Help With Your Job Search
Use this email template to get the helpful leads you need from your network.
If tapping your network to help you "source some sort of a new role" is on your networking to do list, keep reading. Below is a stellar example of how to do exactly that. It's clear from the start ("Looking for Suggestions"). It lays out what the sender is looking for - profession, title, responsibilities, organizations, culture and geographic location. It invites ideas. It's succinct. If you've been seeking an email template to aid in your job search, steal this format.*
“The Email”
Subject: Looking for suggestions
Hello friends,
In the spirit of the new year, I'm looking for new things professionally in 2014. I am starting a search for my next move and I'm hoping to enlist your help. Specifically, I am looking for:
✅ a non-legal job,
✅ in policy, operations, management, or something where I get to lead an interesting program or project that's doing big things to impact the world and make it better
✅ at a non-profit, in media, in a public-minded organization, or in government,
✅ in the greater New York area,
✅ working for and with people that think big and are talented, ambitious and passionate.
I'd also be interested in something like a Deputy or Chief-of-Staff role for someone doing great things who is interested in mentorship.
If you have any suggestions or ideas, I would love to hear from you. I'd appreciate your discretion as I begin this search and I'm happy to pass along my resume to you if helpful.
Thank you in advance for your help. I'm looking forward to catching up with each of you in the new year!
Best,
*Noorain Khan shared this role seeking email in her Mission Critical newsletter where she also generously shares a curated range of job openings in visionary organizations.