So I've just began cold emailing and cold calling a number of people within the industry I've chosen. I'm using a couple different email templates during my cold email process. One that basically says I'm a student doing some research on the particular industry, and the other which says I'm a software developer. I get a much higher response rate (%5-%10) when using the student approach as opposed to saying im a software developer (~1%). Makes sense, most people would wanna help out a student.
My only issue is that I'm not a student and haven't been for about 4 years. Most of what I've read about cold emailing during the IE phase says to use the student approach. This isn't a problem most of the time because people normally don't ask anything about you being a student. But once in a while they do and they want to know what courses your taking, major/minor etc. Has anybody ran into this situation? How'd you handle it?
I've since been using the developer (the truth) approach. Now, I just go straight to cold calling, even though it sucks lol, i've been getting a better response when I just cold call right off the bat.
My only issue is that I'm not a student and haven't been for about 4 years. Most of what I've read about cold emailing during the IE phase says to use the student approach. This isn't a problem most of the time because people normally don't ask anything about you being a student. But once in a while they do and they want to know what courses your taking, major/minor etc. Has anybody ran into this situation? How'd you handle it?
I've since been using the developer (the truth) approach. Now, I just go straight to cold calling, even though it sucks lol, i've been getting a better response when I just cold call right off the bat.
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