Vatsal Nahata got a job after sending 600 emails and 80 calls

We hear the phrase “Failure is the key to success” most often. However, a citizen of India proved this point by getting a job in World Bank after a lot of effort. The 23-year-old after graduating from Yale University got this prestigious job after sending 600 emails and 80 calls. He travelled to the US from Delhi as desired exposure to industry-oriented education and easy job placement.

The story of this successful man namely Vatsal Nahata begins in 2020. During this time whole world was suffering from covid. He began applying for jobs during the end of his graduation. Though he completed his graduation in April 2020, he was unsure about his possibility of getting a good job as the world was suffering from pandemic lead economic crisis and companies were firing their employees.

He shared his challenging journey in professional social media linkedin. Vatsal mentioned "I thought to myself: what was the point of coming to Yale when I can't secure a job here? It became harder to sound strong to my parents when they called and asked me how I was doing". However he chose to fight the challenges instead of accepting defeat and returning to the country. 

Determined to receive his first paycheck in Dollars, he started networking with people, sent 1,500 connection requests, wrote 600 cold emails, and tried 80 odd calls within two months. Unfortunately he had to bear the highest number of rejections within the process which discouraged him at times but couldn’t persuade him to back out of his goal.

More than two months of hard work brought success to his life and he received four job offers at a time out of which he selected World Bank. He said "They were willing to sponsor my Visa after my OPT, and my manager offered me co-authorship on a Machine Learning paper with the World Bank's current Director of Research (something unheard of for a 23-year-old)."

In his post, Vatsal mentioned that he shared his experience in public to encourage people stuck in similar situations. He said, "If you're going through something similar where the world seems to be collapsing on you: carry on - do not go gentle into that good night. Better days will come if you learn from your mistakes and knock on enough doors."