is it too much to ask someone you cold called through linkedin and chatted to refer you?

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For me, yes.

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They just went out of their way to chat and assist. It would be weird not to get the referral, imo.

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They won’t mind if they think you’re mostly normal, have a decent background, and (most importantly) they’ll get a referral bonus.

I get asked that quite a few times but generally I’d only do it if there’s a formal channel to do it (usually means a referal bonus in the system) but generally these referrals don’t bear any weight. I doubt if office hr actually look at them any differently than online applications. So it isn’t a big favor from me but it also won’t help you much. An actual referral would be me personally reaching out to our hr and partners and making a recommendation. I can’t do that for people I don’t really know. If you are going to ask a partner or so that generally have a lot of bearing in even their system referrals, I’d think that’s as hard as I asking me for a personal recommendation

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