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We hear it over and over again. It’s not about what you know, but who you know. If you’re like most people, you probably have at least 200 people in your rolodex. Having contacts is one thing. Making the most of those relationships is another challenge altogether.
With busy schedules, effectively staying in touch with people and using connections to get doors opened is difficult. Just within the past few months, technology has been developed to meet these challenges and help people make the most of their social networks. This technology is appropriately called “social networking software.”
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Your network consists of family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and former employers. It also consists of your dentist, your barber or hair stylist, your accountant and your local grocery store manager. Networking is not only who you know, but who knows you. You may know a lot of people, but how well do they know you - especially in terms of your skills, talents, creativity and potential? How familiar are these people with your value proposition — your unique gifts?
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When the word “networking” is used, we tend to think of upwardly mobile college graduates with a bursting day timer in hand chatting up the competition at business meetings, conventions, or workshops. The average blue/pink/white collar worker disconnects, feeling that they could never be that pushy, don’t know enough people to even start the attempt, and that the method only works in competitive business environments.
Wrong!
While networking can, and often does, follow such a scenario, the concept is much broader than that. The premise is that most people find a job through someone they know. It may be a direct referral or, more likely, indirectly hearing about an opening that seems suitable.
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In the period immediately after the second world, school leavers would join a company with the expectation of a job for life. This changed for the generation leaving school from the 1980s, who anticipated career progression through a number of different organizations. For the current generation of school leavers, and for many others, the notion of a single lifetime career, perhaps the notion of jobs themselves has probably disappeared.
This means the need to find a job isn’t always by choice.
Because we live in a world that is changing all the time, many of us are faced with the prospect of our current job becoming obsolete. We are likely to need to reapply our skills into different jobs from the ones we did before. The career ladder is today more like a maze. Sometimes you may go up, other times left, right or even backward.
According to Leon Benjamin, “The future of work is only about one thing and that’s change. It makes no difference if you’re an employee, an entrepreneur, a small business owner or freelance consultant, and the means by which we will secure the work we want that suits our individual lifestyles, will be by cultivating relationships.”
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Because we live in a world that is changing all the time, many of us are faced with the prospect of our current job becoming obsolete. You may have the threat of redundancy, losing your job, looming over your head, and be wondering “What on earth do I do next?” Networking is one of the most important parts of an effective employment strategy. In this article we’ll look at some of the reasons why.Careers - It’s all change
The career ladder is today more like a maze. Sometimes you may go up, other times left, right or even backward.
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