Networking

How to get in front of a banker before the interview, and how to run the call once you are.

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How to get a networking call (Part 1): the outreach
The outreach that gets answered: warm intros, a short message with the commonality in the subject line and your resume attached, who to target and why junior is not second best, the follow-up ladder, templates worth A/B testing, and the honest hit rate.
11 min readPreview
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How to get a networking call (Part 2): running it in the Recruiting Hub
The tool half: a composer that merges from the contact record, A/B pairs that differ on exactly one thing, reply rates counted from what you actually sent, and a tracker that shows you who has gone quiet and which firms you have nobody at.
5 min readPreview
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The banking resume, section by sectionUpdated
How a first-round screener actually reads your resume, the rules that apply to every line on it, and what goes in Education, Work Experience, Leadership & Activities and Additional Information, drawn from the mentor reviews behind the SuperdayReps Resume Review, with a prompt at the end to run the same review in ChatGPT or Claude.
31 min readPreview
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The informational interview
The call itself: why wanting the referral is what ruins it, who should be doing the talking, the questions that make it a conversation, why a technical question can now land on a coffee chat, what to take away from it, and whether you can ever ask for the referral at the end.
12 min readPreview
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The follow-up that earns the second conversation
What to send after a networking call and after an interview, why a generic thank-you note is worse than none, the one detail that makes it land, and the follow-up that is not a thank-you at all.
6 min readPreview
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Managing competing processes
What to do when two banks move at different speeds: how to ask for time honestly, why an exploding offer is not the emergency it feels like, and why using one offer to pressure another is a much smaller lever than students think.
5 min readPreview