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Has anyone ever asked you about job openings at your company? It’s painful to say “I’m sorry” to these people, and it’s humbling for them to ask. Networking for vacancies does not work.
Well, he was fine when he was just starting his career. Jack got his job as a delivery boy in high school having a friend’s father pull the strings, and Steve got a job waiting tables as he walked in and asked if they needed people. But that only works for entry-level jobs. Once you have a career in mind, your friends and acquaintances are unlikely to know the right people to talk to.
Don’t get us wrong. Person-to-person job search is hands down the preferred method! It’s just that most people think networks work on their own. They will attend association meetings (usually made up of 90 percent job seekers and applicants and only 10 percent entrepreneurs) and ask about vacancies or vacancies. They will distribute their resumes on the street as flyers. They will collect business cards like baseball cards, accumulate them, and wish they had a realistic good reason to talk to those people. They expect to be remembered when a vacancy or vacancy arises.
Then there is networking between the “top” contacts. Friends, relatives and acquaintances do not like to be imposed; Plus, it’s hit or miss when you ask everyone you know about jobs. You can quickly burn your network instead of cultivating it.
For this random, billiard-ball-style network, you need a written and researched plan of who you want to talk to, how you can make or save a package, what is happening in your industry that you can enter, and well thought out reasoning and method. To come in and see them face to face. You need a clear agenda for each meeting. You need to know how to milk the meeting for more contacts by knowing, at least by one key point of information, if not by name, who else you want to talk to.
Remember, your resume probably won’t attract anyone to see you. To generate interviews online, you need good telephone techniques (including knowledge of the three ways to reach unreachable people), a short and powerful personal profile to sell your future, and you will need to avoid common job-killing mistakes. Bells. These include being “open” to any type of work; an unplanned and unfocused search; and do it alone. You will need the support and support of friends and family to get through discouraging times, and don’t be afraid to seek professional help to help you overcome your limiting beliefs.
Poor networks it is worse than not networking. Meeting people is one thing giving the right impression is another. Just because you meet a lot of people and talk to them doesn’t necessarily mean you’re approaching a new job. If people are not impressed, if they think you are too arrogant, too aggressive, too meek, too shy, too misinformed, not engaged enough, too confused, also anything, all a hundred networking leads will do is generate a hundred leads . bad impressions: you will burn bridges that you will have to rebuild later once you understand well.
One client was very excited about how he “knew everyone” in his industry. When we did an honest reference check, we found that he was well known, okay. But he wasn’t famous, he was infamous! He had to get in shape in a number of areas, including going back to everyone he knew and reviewing the impression he had made.
In some cases, you may not be able to repair the damage. You never get a second chance to make a first impression. Poorly done or poorly prepared networking will only make things worse each time.