Sources for Information Interviews (4th Week): Informational Interviews themselves
Informational Interview contact name sources: Informational Interviews themselves
What are Informational Interviews?
Informational Interviews can be an effective way to learn about a profession.
An Informational Interview where you contact a person in a profession you are interested in learning more about. You contact the person and learn about the profession.
This 5- part series will inform you where you can find contact names for informational interviews.
We have scheduled the rest of the posts to appear on the remaining Wednesdays for October.
For this week, a resource for finding contact names for informational interviews is Informational Interviews themselves.
Informational Interviews themselves
You can sometimes get career information from talking to people doing Informational Interviews. A source for Informational Interviews can come from Informational Interviews themselves. Informational Interviews can give people information on a particular profession and additional contact names of additional people to interviews. You only need to ask during an Informational Interview for the person you are interviewing may give you additional contact names.
You could ask a question like:
“Do you know of anyone else who would be interested in interviewing me?”
If you create a good impression with the person you are interviewing, you may get additional contact names.
Sometimes when you are trying to find information on a particular profession; Informational Interviews themselves may be a source of contact names for Informational Interviews. You may find additional people to interview from an Informational Interview themselves.