Informational Interviewing: Do You Do It? How, Why, Do's & Don'ts

Do you accept requests to sit down with job seekers on informational interviews?
We as recruiters don't usually have a lot of time to spend on interviews that are not going to fill a position we have available.
They are however a good way of building a candidate piepline so that whe  the time comes we need someone a person can be top of mind and save the hastle of placing ads and going through resumes.

For a job seeker
informational interviewing is a good way to build their network, get information about your industry, job duties, research companies, and practice their interviewing skills. Job seekers are those enough reasons for you to pick up the phone and call some companies? Who do you talk to? Ask your network who to talk to? How do you start?



Recruiters, the next time a job seeker calls for an informational interview and you have the time, will you accept or better yet refer the job seeker to someone in your company that does the job they want to do? 
Thanks to my colleague Susan Fischer (Susan Fischer) click here for some answers:
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To see part of a presentation I did about both regular and informational interviews click here:
Informational Interviews
Thanks!
Ev