Brian Walsh explains informational interviews: short networking conversations where someone shares insights about their role, company, and industry. They help job seekers and career changers explore paths, learn about specific fields, and make better decisions. Walsh encourages trying them and looking up how-to guides.
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I want to do a quick video here. It's been a long day. My computer completely died. I've been trying to deal with that and I think that's why I did this challenge, is because days like today where you don't feel like doing a video, you get, you go do one when you've decided that. So just show you my office mate. There's my office mate, Talia, who is faithful and with me a lot of the time. And like I said, I have some cats today. I just want to talk really briefly about informational interview. If you have not known what an informational interview is or not done one, it might be a tool that you use. If you're in the middle of a job search, you're thinking about a career change. Maybe you're a college student who's kind of trying to figure out where do I want to work or what kind of position do I want. An informational interview is just an interview with somebody where you're getting information from them about what their job is, what the company does, what the profession is like, what's in the industry. You can use it for a whole variety of ways and it can be relatively short. It's kind of a form of networking. It's a form of making good decisions because you're gathering information. It can be used in a lot of scenarios. And so if you haven't used that tool, might be something that you look up, how to do good informational interviews, other ways to use that tool and start learning from others. So quick video. Talia and I are going to go back to work and we'll see you next Monday for hopefully a little bit more high quality video. Thanks. Bye.
