Networking often feels awkward, and can sometimes backfire, even with the best of intentions. Add to it the awkwardness and limitations of a pandemic, and you’ve got yourself a potential epic fail. We’ve all failed at least once in our networking strategies. This week, I want to provide some tips
I’ve written many times about networking and the importance of making sure your efforts are a balance of give and take instead of just take. But today I want to dive deeper into this subject and focus on the “give” by teaching you how to be a good contact for
I recently had a client who said she wasn’t getting the response to her networking emails she’d hoped for. She asked me if there was anything she could do to increase her response rate. I went back and looked at some of the previous emails she’d sent me to see
Networking is necessary not just for a successful job search, but also for a successful career as a whole. In fact it’s so important you should spend 80% of your job search networking and only 20% applying to online job postings. This is because 80% of the working population found
I was sitting at my desk in my office when the email showed up in my inbox. It was another request for an informational interview. (If you don’t know what an informational interview is, click here.) But this request was different from all the others. It wasn’t the usual lame
