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Job-Hunting reach-out to VC from previous fundraising effort for own startup
I have e-mail archive from 1y ago of my reach-out to 65 VCs in London: we had video calls, they might remember me still, who knows.
I want to send a reply/forward message to the same e-mail thread from abc@gmail.com, saying that I am looking for roles within their VC firm. Is that a good idea?
Or shall I just start new email thread and mention how I know them?
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For sure! My advice for talking about your weaknesses is to only tell them what they already know. My answer is always “my biggest weakness would be that I’ve only been in public accounting and haven’t been in industry before.”
They already know this and this is actually a big weakness. I say don’t give them any more information/weaknesses that can open a can of worms.
You can continue with “but I am a passionate and quick learner” so not having direct industry experience won’t be a problem. if they are interviewing Big 4 candidates then obviously they don’t have industry experience.
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Responding to what your biggest mistake is, or in other words tell me about a time your failed, the point is not to see whether you are perfect but how well you stand against failure and if you are capable of picking yourself back up after experiencing a setback. Obviously everyone makes mistakes so it’s more of a focus on what happened and what did you learn from the experience. My two points on responding to this are:
1. don’t pass blame to someone else - they want to see that you know how to take responsibility for your actions
2. don’t raise any redflags about yourself - admitting you make mistakes is one thing but it’s another thing entirely to mention something detrimental about your personality that could prevent you from getting the job done
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My response to this is “when I was promoted to Senior Associate I wanted to take on every possible responsibility and I ended up taking more than I could handle at the time. I was a new Senior and was still adjusting to the new role of in-charging an audit and I took on too much too quickly. it ended up affecting many of the tasks I was working on because I kept shifting my focus. I discussed this with my Manager and she was very appreciative that I brought this up to her and expressed myself and we agreed on milestones for me to better structure what I was going to work on and when. Also she made herself available to me when I needed her help. And slowly over the course of a few months I became more accustomed to my new role and additional responsibilities.”