COLD EMAIL STRATEGY

The 10-Point Checklist for Picking the Right Firms to Cold Email

Most students email random firms and hear nothing back. This checklist tells you which ones are actually worth your time before you hit send.

Cold emailing works, but only if you're targeting the right firms. Sending 50 emails to companies that never reply to students is just the portal grind with extra steps. This checklist gives you 10 things to look for before you email any firm, covering size, culture fit, how likely they are to reply, and the angle that gets you noticed. Run any company through it in under two minutes and you'll know whether to send or skip. Stop wasting emails on firms that were never going to respond.

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    Every point on this checklist comes from real outreach campaigns that landed students interviews. These are the exact filters we use to decide which firms go on a student's target list and which get cut. If a firm doesn't pass, you move on and save yourself the wasted email.

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