senior alum who left for competitor congratulates u on promotion and offers to catch up, what is an appropriate response? Not close to alum and happy at work, but open to meeting to be respectful. I may be overthinking this and generally dislike “networking”. Anyone else faced this?!

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Networking is important and will help you find a job when you may not be happy at work. I’d catch up to learn more about their company, the differences, and to generally stay in touch in case you do want to leave later.

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Thank you for reminding me 🙏🙏

Just meet up with them? Think of it as a coffee catch up and general chat. Worse case scenario it’s just half an hour of time lost.

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Is it strange if they ask you to drop them an email to schedule? Thinking I should use my personal email if so, right?

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