NETWORKING
Networking can be very helpful to your career. This article
shows you how to build a network for greater success and become a more
confident, mobile free agent in
the workplace. And
networking works! 65 to 80% of all jobs are found through networking.
The idea is to develop a network of friendly people who
share information to help each other. It is best known as a strategy for
opening the hidden job market, for getting a good job. Because many jobs (some
would say most) are not advertised, it is essential that you develop friendly
relationships with people who can tip you off to job openings -- perhaps even
introduce you to the person who is doing the hiring. There is some truth in,
"It's not what you know, but who you know."
Networking has other benefits. You are creating a community
of people who support each other, who provide emotional support and information
that will help each other. You will learn of new developments in your field:
new tools, processes, leaders, training programs, products and services. You
may discover the solution to a problem you face at work. And, you may have the
satisfaction of providing the key piece of information that makes a real
difference in the life of one of those in your network.
Networking is a planned, and ongoing effort. You set goals,
develop strategies for achieving them, take action, evaluate how well your plan
is working, and make changes as necessary. It is something that you do
throughout your career.
How to build a network in five steps:
- Make a
Networking Plan; you plan on how to increase your career by
using the people who surrounds you and people whom you meet in different
places. That’s in meeting, celebration, hospitals, church, when
travelling, learning centers like university, institutions and colleges. Planning
on communicating to people who raise you high and not the ones who will
make you fail in achieving what you want to do in future.
- Make
contact; keep in touch to people who are active and can help you in doing some activities and
sharing different ideas. That’s good and beneficial in getting support,
adding knowledge and skills. Thought making contact it can also help in
getting updates of current issues which are taking place in our daily
life.
- Organize
your network; this is
useful when you have organize your network to different people not only
family members and friends but also to other people who are around you in
your lifetime that’s shows a good sign of socialization to other people in
the society.
- Take
action; at this step you know your networking properly that you
have to implement what you want to do by using the network which you have
like in doing businesses and conducting any activities like entrepreneurship.
- Practice
networking etiquette. Beneficially after taking action should
keep on practicing what you learnt and benefited from network which you have
in acquiring knowledge and skills.
BY
KIMATI ELITRUDAH/ BAPRM 42582
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