Comments on: How to Take Your Job Search to a New Level by Networking http://www.jobsearchsecrets.net/2006/09/13/how-to-take-your-job-search-to-a-new-level-by-networking/ All you need to know to successfully land your next job Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:11:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Jason Alba http://www.jobsearchsecrets.net/2006/09/13/how-to-take-your-job-search-to-a-new-level-by-networking/#comment-39 Jason Alba Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:02:37 +0000 http://www.jobsearchsecrets.net/2006/09/13/how-to-take-your-job-search-to-a-new-level-by-networking/#comment-39 Dave, great post on the essense of networking. I have a couple of thoughts, to add to what you already said: 1. When you are looking at relationships you want to build, you likely already know what you hope to get out of the relationship (I assume this is just human nature). But make sure to shift things around and think about what you can GIVE to the relationship, or other person. It could be something like expert advice in flyfishing (or some other passion they have, like a humanitarian effort), or connecting them with another one of your A-contacts. As one expert relationship builder told me, networking is 95% giving and 5% taking. 2. Realize that when you go through the network you mention (friends, family, barber, etc.) you are not done! Part of networking is saying "do you know anyone that works at xyz company?", or "who do you know that might know someone that works in biotech?" I keep hearing that you don't get jobs from the people you know, you get them from the people that they know... sometimes 3 or 4 levels deep. So you need to build depth in your network also. Dave, great post on the essense of networking. I have a couple of thoughts, to add to what you already said:

1. When you are looking at relationships you want to build, you likely already know what you hope to get out of the relationship (I assume this is just human nature). But make sure to shift things around and think about what you can GIVE to the relationship, or other person. It could be something like expert advice in flyfishing (or some other passion they have, like a humanitarian effort), or connecting them with another one of your A-contacts. As one expert relationship builder told me, networking is 95% giving and 5% taking.

2. Realize that when you go through the network you mention (friends, family, barber, etc.) you are not done! Part of networking is saying “do you know anyone that works at xyz company?”, or “who do you know that might know someone that works in biotech?”

I keep hearing that you don’t get jobs from the people you know, you get them from the people that they know… sometimes 3 or 4 levels deep. So you need to build depth in your network also.

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