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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Druid » Fri Aug 30, 2013 6:47 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Crushed my interview at DLA Piper this morning and received a callback before I made it home. The people I met seemed great and the office was pretty swanky. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to enjoy it one day.
When did you mass mail them? Pre-OCI?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Aug 30, 2013 7:00 pm

Druid wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Crushed my interview at DLA Piper this morning and received a callback before I made it home. The people I met seemed great and the office was pretty swanky. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to enjoy it one day.
When did you mass mail them? Pre-OCI?
During. They actually came to OCI but I didn't bid them as I believed I'd never have to settle for enjoying dla piper. However, midway through OCI, I realized that others were getting CBs and I wasn't, so I spent every minute that wasn't in an interview room sending out my resume/transcript/etc. I wasn't exactly sure how to answer a "why didn't you bid us" question but it was never asked. Screener was two 30 minute interviews, FWIW.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by rad lulz » Fri Aug 30, 2013 8:02 pm

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Druid wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Crushed my interview at DLA Piper this morning and received a callback before I made it home. The people I met seemed great and the office was pretty swanky. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to enjoy it one day.
When did you mass mail them? Pre-OCI?
During. They actually came to OCI but I didn't bid them as I believed I'd never have to settle for enjoying DLA Piper. However, midway through OCI, I realized that others were getting CBs and I wasn't, so I spent every minute that wasn't in an interview room sending out my resume/transcript/etc. I wasn't exactly sure how to answer a "why didn't you bid us" question but it was never asked. Screener was two 30 minute interviews, FWIW.
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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:48 am

Anonymous User wrote:i have been getting quick turn around mass-mail rejections... two inside of 3 hours of mm'ing the recruiter :shock:

time to keep on keeping on (aka: csws)
At least you've heard back from yours. Nothing but crickets on my end.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by hoos89 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 1:57 am

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Sep 04, 2013 11:44 pm

drummed up what looks to be my only offer through mass mailing. definitely glad that I started sending my stuff everywhere once it looked like OCI wasn't gonna do it for me.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by swimmer11 » Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:55 pm

Looks like its dingin' season

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:14 pm

For the "don't waste your time" list: Alston & Bird has stated that it has an absolute policy of not considering direct applications for SAs.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Sep 09, 2013 10:24 am

Should I be following up on the firms where I dropped off my resume at OCI (was about a month ago).

Or should I try to contact an alumni for some additional information and attach a resume to the request?

Both or neither?



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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:35 am

just fired off 486 more through RL. some may be doubles of firms i submitted back in late july early august but fuck it.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by swimmer11 » Mon Sep 09, 2013 11:54 am

Anonymous User wrote:just fired off 486 more through RL. some may be doubles of firms i submitted back in late july early august but fuck it.
How much does it cost? Is it easy to use?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:02 pm

swimmer11 wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:just fired off 486 more through RL. some may be doubles of firms i submitted back in late july early august but fuck it.
How much does it cost? Is it easy to use?
$.25/per email (which includes any attachments) i spent ~$120 ... it is easy to use: sign in w/ gmail acct (which is the acct the email will originate from), select states/cities/firms then create cover letter, upload attachments, and fire away.

note: it CC's you so you will get a lot of emails in your inbox... it is good b/c you can see who "no longer works for the firm" and just forward the email to the correct person. all in all, it is a numbers game. fingers xx.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by a male human » Mon Sep 09, 2013 12:26 pm

Have people had success with resume launcher?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Mon Sep 09, 2013 1:17 pm

Anybody with 300+ not gotten any positive response yet? For reference, median or slightly below at CCN

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:29 pm

a male human wrote:Have people had success with resume launcher?
4 phone screeners and 1 callback so far

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

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a male human wrote:Have people had success with resume launcher?
1 screener, 1 callback.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by swimmer11 » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:51 pm

Looks like I am going to use resume launchpad then.

Is there anything I make sure I do not do? Anything I might just gloss over?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:52 pm

How different are straight-to-cb callbacks from screener > callbacks?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by a male human » Tue Sep 10, 2013 12:57 pm

I suppose my GPA has to be pretty decent to have a shot with mass mailing?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:41 pm

How long after you sent the RL emails are y'all getting calls?

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by Anonymous User » Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:52 pm

Anonymous User wrote:How long after you sent the RL emails are y'all getting calls?
I got one interview request a month later only after I followed up. Bunch of dings and "we aren't hiring SA's" that come within a week or so. Mostly silence.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by gnuwheels » Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:16 pm

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a male human wrote:Have people had success with resume launcher?
4 phone screeners and 1 callback so far
Are these all just the same person hocking resume launchpad? It is so outdated. It has Dewey & LeBouef as a firm option. 2 out of 5 e-mails come back with "this e-mail is inactive" or "this person no longer works here," and thats only the ones that have responses set up for that. I'd wager over half those e-mails go NOWHERE. Also, firms are hip to this mass mailing these days and so another 2 out of 5 e-mails sent gets a response saying "if you want to apply, do it via our online portal," so they are able to weed out anyone too lazy.

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Re: Reminder: Stop reading tea leaves; Start Mass Mailing

Post by purpleparrot » Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:45 pm

gnuwheels wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:
a male human wrote:Have people had success with resume launcher?
4 phone screeners and 1 callback so far
Are these all just the same person hocking resume launchpad? It is so outdated. It has Dewey & LeBouef as a firm option. 2 out of 5 e-mails come back with "this e-mail is inactive" or "this person no longer works here," and thats only the ones that have responses set up for that. I'd wager over half those e-mails go NOWHERE. Also, firms are hip to this mass mailing these days and so another 2 out of 5 e-mails sent gets a response saying "if you want to apply, do it via our online portal," so they are able to weed out anyone too lazy.
It is outdated. I just check the firm info before I send. If the firm name is different, or there's a new contact person, I just take the email RL generated, copy-paste into my own email account, and send to the right person from there instead. It's really helpful for finding the firms and creating the emails, but it needs double checking.

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