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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies take 2 months to send job reject... by afarrell on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:21AM (#28705099)
The three steps to networking:

1. Find conversations with people who are working on problems aligned with your interests. Be present. Listen and pay attention.

2. Ask questions which demonstrate your genuine curiosity about their problems and how they overcame struggles with them. "Clean Language" questions are a neat hack which does authentically work here.

3. Do the boring admin work of sending an email expressing gratitude for their time and following up on opportunities to help out and learn more.

The intro book here is How to Win Friends and Influence People. Also, Half of Models by Mark Manson is also relevant (gender is mostly irrelevant) because the underlying philosophical principles are the same. EDIT: Berne Brown is probably more relevant than Mark Manson.

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Re:Ask HN: Why do companies take 2 months to send job reject... by the_only_law on Thursday September 30, 2021 @11:41AM (#28707631)
I have enough problems finding jobs aligned to my interest, let alone people working on them already.
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