Cold outreach that gets replies.
LinkedIn. Email. Alumni.

Most graduate applicants apply through portals and wait. The candidates who land offers at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, and Clifford Chance do something different — they network. Research consistently shows that 70% of jobs are filled through personal connections, and at competitive graduate employers, candidates with internal referrals are 4-5x more likely to be interviewed.

Cold outreach isn't spam. Done well, it's a professional introduction that demonstrates initiative, commercial awareness, and communication skills — exactly what these firms test for. The key difference between effective outreach and the messages that get ignored is specificity. Referencing someone's specific work, asking a specific question, and making a specific low-commitment ask (15-minute coffee chat, not "can you get me a job?").

The three channels serve different purposes. LinkedIn DMs work for analysts and associates who are active on the platform. Cold emails work for senior professionals and HR contacts. Alumni emails leverage the strongest networking bond available to students — shared university creates an implicit obligation to help that increases response rates by 2-3x.

The challenge is writing messages that feel personal at scale. If you're targeting 10 firms with 3 contacts each, that's 30 tailored messages — hours of work. Intervyo generates all three message types per firm in seconds, tailored to the recipient's seniority and the firm's culture, with timing advice and follow-up plans.