Benjamin Todd

Go to LinkedIn and search Airbnb.

It'll show you a list of all your contacts who work at Airbnb, followed by connections of connections who work at Airbnb.

Pick the person with the most mutual connections and get in touch.

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Remember, if you have 200 LinkedIn connections and each of them has 200 connections that don't overlap with the others, then you can reach at least 10,000 people using these methods.

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There are lots of people in the 80,000 Hours LinkedIn group at linkedin.com slash groups slash 5057625 who are happy to give advice on applications and may be able to make introductions.

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If you still haven't got anywhere, then it may be worth spending some time building your connections in the industry first.

Read our advice on how to network in Appendix 2.

Go back to our advice in the last chapter on how to network.

Start with people with whom you have some connection, such as your university alumni and friends of friends of friends, third order connections.

Your university can probably give you a list of alumni who are willing to help in each industry.

There are probably some good groups you can join and conferences to attend.

Otherwise, you can resort to cold emailing.

Take a look at the extra resources for this chapter in Appendix 7 for guides to getting jobs with no connections and to finding anyone's email address.

Recruiters and listings.

We prefer the above tactics, but recruiters can be worth talking to and are often more effective than just making cold applications.

Look for those who have a good network in the industry you're interested in.

You can also browse job listings, which does sometimes work and is also a useful way to get ideas.