Informational Interview
An informational interview is a short conversation with someone working in a field, role or company you are considering, to gather first-hand reality instead of job-ad marketing. No job is asked for and none is offered; the currency is honest information about what the work is actually like.
Done well, it is the cheapest research tool in a career change: twenty minutes with an insider tells you more about daily reality, entry paths and red flags than a week of reading. Most people agree to it more readily than expected; being asked for expertise is flattering.
The etiquette: ask for 20 minutes, prepare three specific questions, never pivot into asking for a job, and send a short thank-you with what you took away. If the conversation was good, the relationship often continues on its own.
Thinking about changing direction?
Reading the definition tells you what the move is called. It does not tell you what it cost the person who made it. On Nawaya you talk to someone who changed field themselves, for 30 minutes, one to one, and the first conversation is free.
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