I have a big tech companies Vp/COO as a connection on LinkedIn. Should I message them and ask for career advise? And how to approach/follow up with my job application I submitted to the company last week? Or is that doing too much lol

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Career advice or just to understand their story, yes, advice on following up with the job application, no.

The former is about building connection, and the latter makes the entire outreach seem very transactional. Also someone at that level is unlikely to understand the recruiting processes very well, so really won’t be that much help.

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Got it, I sent the message! Thank you guys for the advice!

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