Monday, October 3, 2011

Network Your Way to a Job

If you plan to look for a job after graduation from high school or college, laying the groundwork now is important. Projections indicate that jobs will continue to be hard to find for a few years, and those who have an "in" will be the first to secure work.


Networking is the most promising way of finding your way into a job, and the best time to start building a network is while you are still in school. Why?
• By beginning now, you will have time to enlarge your network so that many people can help you find a job when you're ready.

• Networking is the perfect way to meet professionals in your field--people who can assist you in finding new job opportunities.

• Building relationships takes time, and the better your relationships with the people in your network, the more likely they are to want to help you when the time comes.

• Employees know when openings come up in their companies, and in the firms of other people they know. Often, these positions are never advertised. Unless you're part of a large network of people who work for different companies, you'll never hear of these jobs.

• If someone an employer respects recommends you, you gain attention that you'll never receive from sending unsolicited resumes.

• Many firms offer contract work during a down economy in order to save money. You might be able to secure short-term employment from a network reference that leads to full-time employment.

1 comment:

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