Tim Davies shows how persistence beats passive applications. His daughter emailed a company, got no response, then printed her letter and hand-delivered it. She got the interview and the job. Send ten emails, revise, send ten more. Go in person when digital fails.
That was such great advice for that, to that young entrepreneur. And if he doesn't get it with those initial 10, he does another 10 and he tweaks the copy or whatever he might do. I had the same experience with my daughter in the last couple of weeks. She needs some work experience. Um, so she sent an email, didn't get a response. So I said, right, print it off, let's put it into a letter and go and hand deliver it. She went and hand delivered it. You know, got an interview, got the work experience because she turned up at the door. Because again, her competitors, her colleague, uh, peers at school would have just emailed. Yeah, or just click the apply button on LinkedIn.
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