Get an Internal Warm Intro to Another Team
Applying through the internal portal drops your name into the same pile as external candidates. The honest fix is to get one person on that team to walk your resume to the hiring manager first.
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✍️ Ready-to-send intro“Hi - we both studied at [your school]. I’d love to hear about your path to a company you are targeting before I apply…”
… plus everyone else in your network who can put in a good word.
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Find the actual right person, not just the manager
The instinct is to message the hiring manager directly, but that reads as a cold pitch even inside your own company. The person who moves you is a peer already on the team who can vouch that you would be good to work with.
Look at who you already share ground with: someone from your onboarding cohort, a past project, a shared previous employer, or an alum from your school now on that team. That overlap is your reason to reach out, and it is what makes them willing to spend 30 seconds forwarding your name.
How to line up the intro without going through the portal
The move is a short chain: learn about the team from an insider, then let that same insider hand you to the decision maker. Each step should cost the other person almost nothing.
- Lead with what you share. Open with the overlap (same past company, same office, same project) before you mention wanting to move. It turns a cold ask into a hello.
- Ask one specific question. Request 15 minutes to understand what the team is actually hiring for, not a favor. People answer specific questions and ignore vague ones.
- Make the forward easy. End the chat by asking who the hiring manager is and whether they would forward a two-line summary you write for them. Do the writing so they just paste and send.
- Skip the portal until last. Only submit the internal application after your name is already on the manager's radar, so the form confirms interest instead of introducing you.
Where FindWarmIntros fits
The slow part is figuring out who on that other team you already have a real connection to, since the internal directory does not show shared history. FindWarmIntros does the finding-and-ranking part: point it at the team or company and it surfaces the people you share a school or past employer with, ranks them by how warm the path is, and drafts the intro message so you can spend your energy on the conversation instead of the search.