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Networking Advice

February 27th, 2009

Stand out job interviews, do your homework and speak with confidence

Stand out job interviews, do your homework and speak with confidence

Standout job interviews can help you land jobs. But, if you want to stand out at job interviews, you need to make the right impression. Benjamin Franklin said it best: “It’s hard for an empty bag to stand upright.”

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February 27th, 2009

What Do You Do? Crafting an Tribal Introduction

What Do You Do? Crafting an Tribal  Introduction

Are you prepared to answer the question “what do you do?” Do you have a 30-second elevator pitch prepared? Here’s what we find when doing our Positive Networking® workshops: people work up a sweat when we ask them to answer this question!

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February 27th, 2009

Managing your Business Cards

Managing your Business Cards

Riffling through stacks of business cards to find the one you want is a time waster if ever there was one. Besides, Murphy’s Law dictates that the business card you want is always at the bottom of the last stack you look through. Here are four simple ideas that will change what you do with the business cards you receive.

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February 27th, 2009

What is Positive Networking

What is Positive Networking

Positive Networking is not all about you. It’s discovering what you can do for someone else. While there is a place for transactional networking, the majority of networking opportunities are not about closing a sale but opening a relationship.

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February 27th, 2009

Summertime and the networking is easy

Summertime and the networking is easy

Summer is a time to chill out and networking isn’t on most people’s radar. Dressing up, standing around in a windowless hotel meeting room, doing something that you already find kind of stressful—who wants to do that when you could be at beach or on a bike ride after work?

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February 27th, 2009

Building positive energy – Using mirror neurons for successful networking

Building positive energy - Using mirror neurons for successful networking

Networking successfully requires jobseekers to build positive energy into their networking efforts. This can be done with mirror neurons. To find a job, you need to get out there and network, but you may have noticed there’s a wall jobseekers often run right into.

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February 27th, 2009

Effective Networking, Developing this Essential Skill

Effective Networking, Developing this Essential Skill

The ability to do effective networking is an often overlooked leadership skill, but it’s one that will greatly assist you in getting the career you want. Ibarra and Hunter, authors of “How Leaders Create and Use Networks,” published in the January 2007 issue of The Harvard Business Review, stated that: “Networking is simultaneously one of the most self-evident and one of the most dreaded developmental challenges that aspiring leaders must address.”

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February 27th, 2009

Networking etiquette: respecting your professional contacts

Networking etiquette: respecting your professional contacts

A professional network is indispensable when you’re looking for a job. Your contacts can suggest promising leads or put you in touch with firms that are hiring. They may provide you with first-hand information about a company or give you the name of a staff member they know.

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February 27th, 2009

Business networking online | Tips for business networking online

Business networking online | Tips for business networking online

Business networking online provides the opportunity to expand your contacts without ever going to a wine and cheese event. Turn to business networking online as quick, painless way to keep track of contacts – without having to “do lunch”.

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February 27th, 2009

Professional membership societies: the benefits of professional association membership

Professional membership societies: the benefits of professional association membership

Professional membership societies may not be among your top priorities, given the number of responsibilities that you juggle on a daily basis. After all, professional membership societies often entail get-togethers and what business person has time for more meetings and activities?

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