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The Importance of Networking: Building Interconnections for Career Success

Networking is crucial as it fosters interconnectivity, providing support, guidance, and opportunities that enhance your professional standing. A strong network gives access to mentorship, diverse skill sets, and valuable information. To nurture your career network, cultivate human relationship skills, seek mentorship, and engage actively within your workplace. Watch out for self-similarity and proximity pitfalls that can limit your network’s effectiveness. Reflect on personal networking experiences and recognize how they can open doors to new opportunities and insights in your career journey.

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The Importance of Networking: Building Interconnections for Career Success

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  1. Networking

  2. What’s a Network? “ A system of interconnectivity where one element supports, assists, promotes, or redirects other parts of the system; all parts of the system are often interdependent”

  3. Why is a network important? • Provides support, guidance, direction, and advice • Mentor can be a teacher, coach, or helper • Advances your standing in the profession • Can provide you with opportunities that would not otherwise come your way • Access to private information • Access to diverse skills sets

  4. A Career Network Nurture your network relationships by: • Checking your attitude • Develop human relationship skills • Commit yourself to self-improvement • Find a mentor or be a mentor

  5. A Good Mentor is… • Experienced in the field • Has good job skills • Knowledgeable of the job, the profession, and the market • Observant • Listens well • Shares well

  6. Network within your firm • Learn about office politics • Match your style to the firm culture • Think several moves in advance • Do something for others • Know the “right” people

  7. Things to watch out for • Too much self-similarity • Too many people in your network are just like you • Too many have the same information • Proximity principal • People in your network are the ones that you spend the most time with • With these two principles you won’t enrich your networks

  8. Networking Experiences Can anyone tell me an example of where a network helped them? Can you think of an example where a network would have helped you?

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