As a BI dev building forecasting apps, my worst networking flop was cold-messaging a recruiter on LinkedIn about Power BI gigs, only to get ghosted until I shared a meme about DAX hell and followed up casually. Suddenly, coffee chats flowed. What’s your funniest networking mishap that landed an interview, and how’d you recover?

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Too funny! I guess that catches their attention and breaks up the monotony of what they normally receive. I can’t say I’ve ever had a networking mishap, at least not one that led to good conversations.

I have learned that being human works better than being polished. Shared pain points and humour build rapport faster than cold pitches. Recovering casually often signals confidence more than pretending the first message never happened.

At a college career fair, everything was digital… except the internet. Recruiter asked me to pull up my GitHub and the page just kept loading. We both stared at the spinner like it was thinking hard. I swear my projects exist 😭

Man! That is heartbreaking! I would have just tried moving somewhere and getting into a better place and loading all my pages.

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