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I was in IT management for a decade. Plenty of my former employees or coworkers still come to me for help when they're job hunting, and I hook them up. That's the purpose of networking and it's standard business practice.
Wish I'd realized the worth of networking sooner. Ideally, you start with it in college. I was always a loner so I simply didn't. As a result today I have zero fallbacks for when I inevitably get shitcanned.
Then again, I was always a bad liar, and "selling yourself" is essentially just that. If you don't pretend you are hot shit, you are, well, just shit.
Oh, for sure. I guess I assumed Bob made the introduction by email. So OP could reply to that intro email with a "Thanks, Bob! Alice, pleasure to meet you, I'll send you a separate email to introduce myself and blah de blah".
Acknowledge the email and thank Bob, then drop him from the convo. Regardless, Bob doesn't need to see the sausage being made.
Just start adding everyone in your field on LinkedIn. I have 1000 contacts on there and only post when I have a lead on a job and want to hook people up, or when someone I know needs to find a job. I posted for a recent college grad the other day and got him 6 interviews in a week.