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“600 emails, 80 calls”: How a 23-year-old landed a job at World Bank
• He secured the job after many failed attempts
It is said that hard work never goes in vain, and there is no shortcut to success. Vatsal Nahata, an Ivy League graduate, proved it right.
The Yale University graduate kept trying for his dream job at World Bank, and got it after 600 email and 80 phone calls.
Mr Nahata has narrated his entire journey in a long post on LinkedIn, which has been liked by more than 15,000 people. His story has also been shared by nearly 100 people.
The young man’s inspiring journey started during COVID-19 in 2020 when he was about to graduate from the prestigious university.
“I did not have a job at hand and I was going to graduate in two months. I thought to myself: what was the point of coming to Yale when I can’t even secure a job here. It became harder to sound strong to my parents when they called and asked me how I was doing.
“But I was determined that returning to India was not an option, and that my first paycheck would only be in Dollars. I went all out on networking, and took the risk of completely avoiding job application forms or job portals,” he said.
Mr Nahata then added that in two months, he sent over 1,500 connection requests, wrote 600 cold-emails, got on 80 odd cold-calls and faced a large number of rejections.
“Ultimately, I had knocked on so many doors that my strategy paid off! I ended up with four job offers by the first week of May and chose the World Bank,” he said.
The Economics graduate from Delhi’s Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) said the difficult phase gave him the “confidence to survive in any situation.” — ndtv.com
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