Business Networking for Veterans: A Guidebook for a Successful Transition from the Military to the Civilian Workforce, Second Edition

6. When Networking Doesn’t Come Easily

Courtesy of Shutterstock.com.

The more you network, the more you will come into contact with different types of personalities and varying styles of networking. Two people can approach a room full of people from completely different perspectives and achieve the same results. One can work the room in a gregarious manner, meeting many different people and engaging in multiple conversations, while another can be quieter and engage in fewer, but more engrossing conversations. However, when they walk out of the meeting, they both have found new contacts, made new friends, and secured referrals and leads. The differences ...