As a Sales Manager part of my job is to build and maintain a network of potential candidates for AE roles in my team so that when I have an opening (someone gets promoted, someone leaves, we create a new role) I can hire the best people in the market vs the best people on the market.
I therefore spend a lot of time on LinkedIn looking for talent and when I find people that I feel would be a good match I'm reaching out even when I don't have a job to offer so that we can spend 30 minutes to get to know each other and figure out if we want to reconnect if/when an opportunity arises.
Would you respond positively to such an outreach ?
As an AE it never happened to me but I figure I would have appreciated the outreach but not responded positively if I wasn't thinking about moving at all.
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