Heard at Career Transition Workshop-Dallas 5/24/10

Session 7 Networking Strategy: How to Net Work from your Network

God has a preferred path for you if you will only follow his directions to follow it

Law of Harvest

You reap what you sow

Everything has a cost

Only 20% of available jobs are posted public ones

Networking is an art but with a science to it's approach

Way of life, not a job search tool alone.

Investing in relationship is the true nature of networking

How-to build better bridges

Be properly parted

Be properly pointed

Be Properly packaged – best packaged & promoted gets hired before best qualified

Minimum Best Package

2 minute verbal resume

2 page written resume

reference list of all 3 types

list of 200 target companies with networking contacts

Accountability Consulting Team

You are never NOT networking

Networking for Enjoyment

Networking for Employment

Secret to Networking

Every encounter with people will be both for enjoyment and employment

Need to meet 2-3 new people every day

When you are not networking something terrible happens...nothing

Hiring authorities tend to make the least costly, risky and controversial decisions on who to hire. Beware of the myth of transferable skills

STARS profile of companies

start-up

turn around

accelerated growth

realignment

sustained growth

Do you know anybody or do you know anybody who knows somebody

If not me, who.

If not here, where.

If not now, when.

Tell of character is how one treats other people who can do nothing for you

Social media best as secondary search engine to gather intelligence about target companies

Learn to Discern contacts

Qualify the contact

Qualify the connections

Qualify the call

Kiss a bunch of frogs to find (depending on sexual preference) your prince or princess of job search. To find the best bunch of frogs learn to discern

You can have everything in life if you help enough people -Zig Ziglar

'And in the end, the love you get is equal to the love you give,' The Beatles.

Make a living by what you take, you make a life in what you give-W. Churchill

Live the Golden Rule

Give gifts of value

Gifts of Knowledge

Gifts of Connections

Gifts of Time

Gifts of Kindness

The greatest of you will be the servant of all -Jesus

Rank & rate target list and talk to people who will get you closer to the hiring authorities

Networking is the most effective way to connect with 80% of potential new jobs

The most direct path to a new job is a relationship with another person.

No meeting Monday, 5/31/10 to recognize Memorial Day. Session 8 starts 6/7/10

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