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<blockquote data-quote="wojak" data-source="post: 1371949" data-attributes="member: 19147">How does one go about collecting contact information for purposes of &quot;cold-calling?&quot;I'm currently looking to transition from corporate finance into banking, which seems to be a highly nepotistic and relationship-heavy field. I've been out of school for a couple years and have relevant experience in a fairly competitive development program, so I feel confident about my resume/technical ability. It's the networking that will be the sticking point for me.I come from a large university, and I'm hoping to leverage our alumni base to assist in my search for more information/potential opportunities. The university, believe it or not, has no centrally-managed directory to get in contact with alumni. There are a couple LinkedIn groups for alumni, but I haven't really used LinkedIn in the past, so I'm not able to see any of the members or where they work (you can only reach out to people with whom you share mutual friends, it seems). How can I find alumni working in my target field to cold call?Any guidance, if anyone has been through this, would be fantastic.Side note: It seems like many links from older posts, for example those at the top of this thread, are now broken. Is this a problem for others as well?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wojak, post: 1371949, member: 19147"] How does one go about collecting contact information for purposes of "cold-calling?" I'm currently looking to transition from corporate finance into banking, which seems to be a highly nepotistic and relationship-heavy field. I've been out of school for a couple years and have relevant experience in a fairly competitive development program, so I feel confident about my resume/technical ability. It's the networking that will be the sticking point for me. I come from a large university, and I'm hoping to leverage our alumni base to assist in my search for more information/potential opportunities. The university, believe it or not, has no centrally-managed directory to get in contact with alumni. There are a couple LinkedIn groups for alumni, but I haven't really used LinkedIn in the past, so I'm not able to see any of the members or where they work (you can only reach out to people with whom you share mutual friends, it seems). How can I find alumni working in my target field to cold call? Any guidance, if anyone has been through this, would be fantastic. Side note: It seems like many links from older posts, for example those at the top of this thread, are now broken. Is this a problem for others as well? [/QUOTE]

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