From the inroad team
Tactics, data, and honest takes on breaking into the graduate job market.
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The purpose of a cold email is to gain knowledge or access into a previously unexplored domain.
You want a job. They know you want a job. There is still a right way and a wrong way to reach out, and the difference is everything. Here is the exact template that gets responses, and a real email that led to a job referral.
Getting In
A target list is a logistics document, not a ranking of you. Here is what it actually costs you, and the five things you can do about it without anybody's permission.
Interviews
Everyone gives the same four answers and every one of them works for the firm across the road. Here is the structure that doesn't, and the test your answer has to pass.
Cold Email · Part 4
Silence is not a no. When to send it, what the three lines should say, the four versions that kill it, and the point where you stop and move to the next person.
Timing
Across 529 UK programmes, 38% of summer internships open by the end of September and 54% by the end of October. Here is the real shape of the season, and what it means for when you apply.
Applications
One page, no internship, one part time job. The order to put it in, how to write a bullet that actually says something, and what to delete today.
Getting In
Nobody explains the funnel until you have already missed the entry point. Here is how spring weeks, internships and referrals connect, and the two doors into the same room.
Projects
Everyone says they're passionate. Almost no one has built something. Here is why recreating the product you want to work on is the clearest signal you can send, and how to pick the right project.
Interviews
A one way video interview with nobody on the other end. Here is what a HireVue actually is, why companies use them, and exactly how to prepare.
Cold Email · Part 3
A template is a starting point, not the finished email. Here is how to make it specific while keeping it short, sharp, and respectful.
Cold Email · Part 2
You sent the email, a stranger replied, and now you have a coffee chat in the diary. Here is how to nail the scheduling, prepare well, and make the most of it.
Cold Email · Part 1
You want a job. They know you want a job. There is still a right way and a wrong way to reach out. Here is the exact template that gets responses.