{"id":20408,"date":"2017-10-04T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/?page_id=20408"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:40:22","slug":"how-do-you-arrange-an-informational-interview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/informational-interviews\/how-do-you-arrange-an-informational-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you arrange an informational interview?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p>You can set up an informational interview by email, by letter, or by phone.<\/p>\n<h3>By email (or letter)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>For examples of an approach by letter or by email<\/li>\n<li>Follow up with a phone call &#8212; it is appropriate to do so<\/li>\n<li>Do <strong>NOT<\/strong> enclose a copy of your resume. \u00a0Including a resume makes it appear that you are interviewing for a job rather than asking for information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>By phone<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduce yourself<\/li>\n<li>State that you would like to arrange an informational interview for 20 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Ask if the person would be able to meet with you<\/li>\n<li>Offer to meet at the person\u2019s location and at a convenient time<\/li>\n<li>Be prepared to conduct the informational interview over the phone (in case the interviewer is free and would prefer to hold the interview at that time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>If the person is unable to meet with you, ask whether<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>You could call back at a more convenient time<\/li>\n<li>The person has time right now to answer some of your questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"cta\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/how-to-guides\/informational-interviews\/how-do-you-prepare-for-an-informational-interview\/\">How do you prepare for an informational interview?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- begin-migrated-from-panel-builder --><!-- end-migrated-from-panel-builder --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can set up an informational interview by email, by letter, or by phone. By email (or letter) For examples of an approach by letter or by email Follow up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8275,"featured_media":0,"parent":19681,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20408","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41050,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20408\/revisions\/41050"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/pipercenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}