Networking

Learn how to network effectively in just 50 minutes with this practical and concise book. Networking is a way of making the most of your professional contacts to further your career aims: building and maintaining a strong network will allow you to exchange knowledge and services with your fellow professionals, find out about new opportunities and attract new collaborators and clients. Whether you are embarking on a job search, looking for a promotion or simply trying to excel in your current role, effective networking can give you the edge you need.

In this book, you will learn how networking can help you in recruitment, canvassing for clients and event organization. It also features useful tips for using social networks such as LinkedIn, advice for reaching out to business contacts and tailored guidance for particularly shy or busy people, meaning that you can become a expert networker in no time!

How can this book help you in your career?

Networking gives you access to people who can help you climb the career ladder. This book will give you everything you need to:

• Develop and maintain a network of professionals in your sector
• Use your contacts to help you advance in your career
• Make the most of professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn
• Network effectively even if you are shy or inexperienced

This straightforward and accessible 34-page book is structured as follows:

• Networking
• Learning to network: the basics
  • What is networking?
  • How do I create a network?
  • Maintaining the network: why and how?
  • The networker: an opportunist?
• Top tips
• FAQs
  • Isn’t working on my network akin to ‘using’ the people around me?
  • Where and when should I network?
  • What if I’m shy?
  • How can I create a network of contacts if I have no time?
  • How can I interest others if there is not a lot to talk about?
  • I never know how to approach people, what should I do?
• Over to you