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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am always happy to do informational interviews.  I'm busy like many of us, but always try find time.  And it almost always inspires me to meet someone still in school or early in their career who is excited about their future and enthused about meeting a grayhair like me, with no expectation of anything other than hearing my insights.  It often brings back nostalgia for my earlier days and gives me hope for our future.  I got to meet with older and wiser professionals when I was younger, and never once expecting a job out of it -- to the contrary, I was grateful to get a glimpse of what my future might be like.  It also helped give me another layer of understanding with the field I was asking about and helped me feel more confident the next time I interviewed for an actual job.

It seems a little Scrooge-like for someone already fortunately enough to have been employed a long time to expect the world not to ask you for such a tiny act of kindness.  The job market is so depressing right now for many students and new professionals, no matter how enterprising they are.  If they can't even find someone willing to talk informationally, I worry it could just exacerbate the despair they might already be feeling.    [/quote]
They’re not excited about the future. They’re excited about you slipping their resume in front of someone who can hire them or dropping your name to get a leg up.[/quote]
Why not both?[/quote]

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