Staying in contact with the people often falls to the bottom of everyone's to-do lists. But, with a bit of planning and dash of creativity, you can nurture your network. ...
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Networking
10 Tips to Keep Your Network Alive and Well
If you keep your network alive by staying in touch with people, you'll never have to build it from scratch again. It's time-consuming and hard work to build a network, but a lot less work to maintain ...
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5 Ways To Expand Your Personal Network
You've been told you need to expand your network. But that seems easier said than done. How do you meet more people? ...
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Stop Calling It An Informational Interview
The term informational interview sends the wrong message! Even worse, only job seekers ask for them! So can we make a deal. If you are serious about your career, stop asking for informational ...
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Motivation Monday: Be the Conduit
Are you being stingy and hoarding what you know? Maybe it's time to be the conduit! ...
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Use Referral Marketing In Your Job Search
What if you had a team of people singing your praises and spreading the word about your job search. That's referral marketing. ...
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Introverts- Tap Into Your Strengths During Job Search
During job search, introverts can tap into their many strengths to become strong networkers and great at job interviews.
Learn what strengths introverts possess and how to make the most of them ...
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Dating and Job Search Have A Lot In Common
It is amazing how many similarities there are between finding a job and dating. What you may know from experience is that they both take time and effort to produce the results you want!
Landing ...
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Summary Sunday: Clarifying Networking
Perhaps one of the most misunderstood and botched activities in career management is networking. Either people don't do it, they do it wrong, or some combination of those two. Only a small number of ...
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The Year for Relationship Building
I would like to proclaim 2013 the year for Relationship Building!
Why? It is the single most important part of your career and life. Relationships have the power to open doors, present ...
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10 Reasons You Won’t Network
Like evangelists, people who network want to spread the good word about how it has helped them. They try to convince and convert the people who are non-believers to join them in celebrating the power ...
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Building Relationships Through Trust, Cooperation and Exchange
Building relationships, especially when searching for a new job, involves more than chatting. It requires you to create trust by showing cooperation and exchanging information. ...
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The 123s of Connecting During Job Search
Let's simplify connecting during job search to make it easy to do and understand. ...
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Pinging Your Network
If you are truly ready to accept the challenge of networking for the rest of your life, then you will need to find a way to make it FUN, otherwise, well, you just aren't going to do it.
Reach Out and ...
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Networking, Plain and Simple
Networking is nothing more than an exchange of information. Yet we tend to over-think it and perhaps make it more difficult than it needs to be. Each time you interact with someone could be called ...
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Meet New People Every Week
Is it possible to meet someone new every week? If you live in a hole, I guess this would be difficult, but we live in a world of interesting people. Really!
Working or not, a goal that ...
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Have a good answer for “So What Do You Do?”
It is amazing how many people have difficulty answering this question...still.
Follow this formula to create your answer.
I am a(n):
specializing in:
What problems do you solve:
Your ...
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Don’t Just Ask for a Favor
One thing I know from speaking with people in job search is that many are frustrated and discouraged because they can't get "meetings" with people. They've heard the best route to finding a job is ...
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Learning About People
Part of what makes life so wonderful is meeting new people. And even introverts enjoy learning about people. This is especially important during a job search. ...
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Top 8 Excuses for Not Networking
It's easy to make excuses for not networking. A lot of people just don't like doing it or don't know how easy it really is. ...
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Literally, Get Out of Your House
As I've said many times, there isn't a job waiting for you inside your home. It isn't hiding under the carpet or in a closet. The jobs are out there in the big scary world. So, get out of your ...
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