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Mod 3 Week 3

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  1. Back to your resume and cover letter you’ve been working on:
  • What other next steps do you want to take to make these two components stronger?

For my resume, change up the color scheme on the resume to make sure it's really readable; give it to my friends who work in engineering & see if they have additional feedback. For my cover letter, edit it to make sure I am talking about the actual tech pieces intelligently and in detail.

  1. Outreach Brainstorming:
  • Either explore the company you wrote a cover letter for or find a new company to explore this week; Go to their company LinkedIn page and start to explore the employees. Who are a couple people you could reach out to? Why?

Still looking at Sondermind, there are a few people I've identified as good candidates to reach out to. First off, a software engineer who works there, Shaun Seidman, has a mutual connection with me, a former co-worker who is actually also a Turing alum that I would feel comfortable reaching out to to ask for an introduction. Ed Stanton may also be a good person to reach out to because he is the Director of Engineering at Sondermind.

  1. Finalize Your Plan:
  • Who have you decided to reach out to? Why that person? How will you contact them? What do you want to talk to them about? How will you follow up?

I have decided to reach out to Shaun Seidman since we do have a mutual contact. I also see that he went to Galvanize, a different bootcamp, so we have more similar backgrounds and may be able to connect more easily. I plan to first reach out to Adam, our mutual contact, and see if he can introduce us. If that happens, I will ask them how they like working at Sondermind, what their day to day looks like, and how prepared they felt by a bootcamp to enter into an engineering role, amont other things.

  1. Execute your plan:
  • Reach out to your contact THIS WEEK. If possible, reach out to more than one person OR find a meetup to attend also. What happened? What did you learn about the company? What other next steps should you take for pursuing this company? Be sure to update this in Huntr.

It turns out that my friend Adam barely knew Shaun Seidman, so that wasn't actually a warm connection. I was then going to reach out to Ed Stanton, the Director of Engineering instead, but I couldn't contact him on LinkedIn (3rd tier connection) and could not locate contact info for him elsewhere. I haevn't yet identified someone else to reach out to that I feel I could make any meaningful connection with, so I need to do some more research.

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Where did engineers work before they got to Sondermind? Reach out to folks at those companies and learn more about what they do.

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