You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network
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You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network

Job Search Strategies That Work

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eBook - ePub

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network

Job Search Strategies That Work

About this book

Looking for work?

Many job search industry professionals say that networking is the single most effective strategy for landing your next job. How’s your networking working?

You may think you don’t know anyone who can help you with your job search. But you know more people than you think, and they are willing to help you. However, you need to reach out and connect with them first.

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network – Job Search Strategies That Work, offers tactics to help you reach out to build and leverage your personal and professional network.

“It’s not who you know… it’s who knows you know…”

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network -- Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use ' best practices ' to create a professional network that will increase your success in landing your job.

The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about professional networking.

Networking… is work. Your immediate job is to let people know ‘what’ you know and get to know ‘who’ they know. Your next connection may be looking for a candidate to fill an open position.

Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

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Information

Publisher
Live For Excellence Productions
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781999475437
Edition
1
Topic
Personal Development
Subtopic
Careers

1 Copyright

Copyright © 2018 by Rae A. Stonehouse
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
E-book - ISBN: 978-1-9994754-3-7
Print - ISBN: 978-1-9994754-6-8
Live For Excellence Productions
1221 Velrose Drive
Kelowna, B.C., Canada
V1X6R7
https://liveforexcellence.com

2 Connect With Us

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Contents

1. Copyright
2. Connect With Us
Welcome!
Section One: Creating & Leveraging Your Network Web
3. Introduction to Your Network Web
4. Leveraging Your Connections
5. Tips for Strengthening Your Job Search Network
6. Dress for Success
7. Business Card Presentation & Et...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. 1. Copyright
  4. 2. Connect With Us
  5. Contents
  6. Welcome!
  7. Section One: Creating & Leveraging Your Network Web
  8. 3. Introduction to Your Network Web
  9. 4. Leveraging Your Connections
  10. 5. Tips for Strengthening Your Job Search Network
  11. 6. Dress for Success
  12. 7. Business Card Presentation & Etiquette
  13. 8. Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
  14. 9. Follow-up is Everything!
  15. 10. Top 15 Networking No-Nos
  16. 11. Linkedin Revisited
  17. Section Two: Reference Strategies
  18. 12. Maximizing Your References
  19. 13. Match Your References to the Target Job
  20. 14. Professional Reference Questions List
  21. 15. Personal Reference Questions List
  22. 16. Go on The Offence
  23. Section Three: Additional Resources
  24. 17. Question: What are the challenges of writing a LinkedIn profile?
  25. 18. Question: How am I supposed to Network If I am shy and socially anxious and avoid social events?
  26. 19. Question: Who’re best business networking professionals?
  27. 20. Question: How do I expand my professional network in college?
  28. 21. Question: What are the benefits of like-minded connections?
  29. 22. Question: What are the best ways to network at a business dinner and leave a good impression?
  30. 23. Question: Why on LinkedIn has boasting about oneself and one’s achievements become acceptable and applauded? Does bragging or humility serve society better?
  31. 24. Question: What are tips and tricks to increase your odds of getting a job at a company by using networking skills?
  32. 25. Question: Should you smile on your LinkedIn profile?
  33. 26. Question: Do you accept connection invitations from strangers on LinkedIn? Why or why not?
  34. 27. Question: “It’s not what you know... it’s who you know”. Is networking more important than education, as networking saves the long, learning process ‘till later?
  35. 28. Question: How should you introduce yourself in a way that'll make people care who you are?
  36. 29. Question: How can I get over my extreme fear of talking to new people?
  37. 30. Question: What do you talk about over coffee?
  38. 31. Question: In what way is career or business networking the same as making good friends?
  39. 32. Question: What are some tips when collecting business cards?
  40. 33. Question: How do you become confident if you are a very shy person?
  41. 34. Question: What is the most difficult thing about networking?
  42. 35. Question: How do I Overcome Social Anxiety?
  43. 36. Question: What's the best approach to network as a job seeker?
  44. 37. Question: Why is networking important in the workplace?
  45. 38. Question: How does one network effectively without seeming or sounding like you’re bragging?
  46. 39. Question: How do you build strong relationships with contacts to strengthen your network?
  47. 40. Question: Can you do too much networking?
  48. 41. Question: Are most business professionals good at networking?
  49. 42. Question: What are your most effective conversation openers in networking situations?
  50. 43. Question: How do I meet local people with common interests?
  51. 44. What are good networking events?
  52. 45. Question: What research exists about professional networking groups?
  53. 46. Question: What is the best way to network?
  54. 47. Question: How do you become confident if you are a very shy person?
  55. 48. Question: What are some speed networking tips?
  56. 49. Question: What is the best self-introduction?
  57. 50. Question: Which tools or apps do you use to network effectively at events?
  58. 51. Question: What's the best way to network at 27 when you don't know many people and it seems like most people already have a network?
  59. 52. Question: How Do I Get Better at Networking?
  60. 53. Question: What is the most difficult thing about networking?
  61. 54. Question: What advice can you give to someone with social anxiety in regards to job searching prospects?
  62. 55. Question: How do I network with other people in my industry?
  63. 56. Question: What are some of the best networking tips you've heard?
  64. 57. Question: How do I get better at networking in conferences and events?
  65. Section Four: Bonus Material
  66. 58. Too Shy to Network? Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  67. 59. You Get Back What You Give: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  68. 60. Be the Red Car: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  69. 61. Johnny Appleseed Knew What He Was Doing: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  70. 62. Power Networking Secret Revealed!
  71. 63. So What's Your Story? Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  72. 64. Become a Thought Leader: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  73. 65. For a Good Time Call ...
  74. 66. How High Does Your Elevator Go?
  75. 67. Serendipity Isn't a Plan! Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  76. 68. Overcoming Shyness in Networking: A Systematic Approach
  77. 69. Follow-up is Everything! Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  78. 70. I would like to introduce …
  79. 71. Finding Common Interests: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  80. 72. Name Dropping for Fun & Profit: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  81. 73. Close Encounters of the Networking Kind: Power Networking Tips & Techniques
  82. About the Author
  83. Also by Rae A. Stonehouse