Acquiring a specific departments managers email?

[fishbrains]

Originally Posted by socalfusions

Thanks for your informative responses.

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Is cold calling a thing of the past that simply has no place in today's job seeking culture or is it more along the lines of "your mileage may vary"?

I hate to answer for everybody who hires, so I guess YMMV.

However, I do not know anybody, nor have I ever encountered anybody who welcomed these calls or viewed them as anything other than a nuisance.

[annerk]

Originally Posted by fishbrains

I hate to answer for everybody who hires, so I guess YMMV.

However, I do not know anybody, nor have I ever encountered anybody who welcomed these calls or viewed them as anything other than a nuisance.

Calls are definitely a nuisance, an e-mail is OK. Worst case is that it's ignored.

[FBJ]

Originally Posted by socalfusions

I've read that it is advisable to send your resume to the email of a manager in charge of a companies specific department that you are seeking employment in. Since most companies are passive recruiters and don't actively advertise job openings it is recommended to "cold call" them by sending them your resume to the actual manager and not the Human Resources department as HR isn't mainly in charge of recruitment.

How exactly would you go about requesting a specific managers email for the desired department? Do you simply just call that company and request it? Do they just hand out anyones email to inquiring minds? Perhaps it is listed somewhere on the official website? Please let me know what the correct method is to obtain the email address of a manager in the department you're interested in.

I think you have to know someone who knows the hiring manager which will be stated in the email or they will probably trash it.

[Hemlock140]

As a hiring manager, and a nice person, I would politely tell you that we only accept applications for current openings through our public website, then would send you to my spam/block folder. Most would probably just do the latter. That would only work at a "mom & pop" where your e-mail happened to be the day the owner had just fired someone.

[FBJ]

Originally Posted by Hemlock140

As a hiring manager, and a nice person, I would politely tell you that we only accept applications for current openings through our public website, then would send you to my spam/block folder. Most would probably just do the latter. That would only work at a "mom & pop" where your e-mail happened to be the day the owner had just fired someone.

You would only talk to them on email if they were referred by someone correct? I used to do the cold email and would get.........."how did you get my email?"