You’ve done some good brainstorming. Now let’s see how accurate your early prototypes are. To check, you’ll line up informational interviews with people in jobs like the ones you’ve mocked up. Chances are you’ll be having these conversations anyway as you “network” to learn about jobs and gain access to new opportunities. But we provide a structure for the “asks” and for the conversations themselves—which can make this part of the process feel less daunting. From personal experience, we know these asks can be difficult. To make them easier, we’ve provided these letter templates here that you can modify to fit your circumstances.