Heard at Career Transition Workshop-Dallas 8/24/10

Session 7 Networking Strategies: 
How to Net Work from Your Network

• 80% of job market is hidden from job seekers
• Niche networking is most important to find the hidden job
• All of life is relationships
• Nine nifty nuances of networking
• Better to build bridges...than to burn them
• Never not networking

• Networking for enjoyment
• Networking for employment

Tackle targets-don't randomly roam the range

Networking is not asking more people to meet more people

Develop target lists by working from the outside into the company

STARS

• start up,turnaround, accelerated growth, realignment, sustained success
  

Straightest distance to a job is relationship with another

It's a Small World After All

• See your world as Small Not your network

• Close--Regulars--Acquaintances
• Find out what others need most that you do best
  

Social Media Networking

• pro/con to using social media
• advantages/disadvantages
• recruiters/hiring authorities using media to recruit/screen
• Fear in job search affects job seekers-fear is a poor chisel to carve out a life
• High touch trumps high tech

Learn to Discern How to..

• qualify your leads and contacts
• tell me a little bit about that person or company
• is the lead a high/medium/low potential
• contact high potential leads within 24 hours

Networking is a numbers game

• Depending on sexual preference kiss a bunch of frogs...to find a prince/princess
  
• Most jobs found at 3 to 4 degrees separated from primary contacts
• Networking like a giant funnel feeding more leads/contacts to yield actual job contacts
• Nurture Your Network

• Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, only God can count the apples in any one seed.

Live the Golden Rule

• Rules of reciprocity
• sowing precedes reaping
• O-Factor Precedes I-Factor
• Life is not a measure of donation but devotion
• Between where you are today to where you are going is a treacherous path
• All can't do great things but can do small things in a great manner
• Greatest of all will be a servant among you
  

Session 8 Interviewing Tactics:
How to Pitch Yourself
Tuesday, 6:30pm central time USA, 8/31/10
Watch live on Internet at www.livestream.com/dougcaldwell
Pre-game show starts at 6:27pm

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