How to Build Your Career Networking Effectively to Get Ahead of the Rests!
No man is an island. We need others in this world. The basic theory of demands and supply! Why career networking is important? 1. Networking provides the opportunity to gain and share knowledge instantly. 2. Networking is important to start or advance a career. 3. Network provides business opportunities. It’s a wonder what recommendation and "word of mouth" from individual can do to your career/business.
1. Start with your previous and current workplace: Build a local career network – colleagues, customers and vendors or attend industry gatherings. 2. Network outside your workplace: Join some social community. 3. Take the leadership role in your industry. Blog is a very popular and powerful tool today. Everyone seems to own a blog. Write a blog on your expertise, and perhaps create an online community around your unique interests. 4. Have fun. Use online social networking sites. E.g. Facebook.com, twitter.com 5. Be inclusive in building your career network. Don’t limit yourself, appreciate diversity when you network and broaden your network. Think about the twenty people who have helped you the most in the past, people you can trust, people you turn to when you face a problem at work, the people who've watched your backside, people who know how to get things done, etc. This people worth your inclusive lists! 6. Find opportunities to be generous within your career network. Look for opportunity to help others in their career, offers others’ help before they ask for it, become a trusted source of information. 7. You are a brand. Brand yourself to your network in order to build it further, the more people know you to more people will want to know you. Managing personal image and perception is very important in career development.
Ability to trust and to be trusted is an important element in building your career network. Remember never burn your bridge no matter what happen!
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