Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job

Chapter Nine

Networking Tools and Advanced Strategies

We’ve been talking all along about a strategic approach to highly effective networking, and now we’re going to push that a little further. If you do the things we’ve talked about so far, you’ll be highly effective in your job search networking—well above average. If you also add some of the things suggested in this chapter, well my goodness, who knows how good you could get?

I say “some of the things in this chapter” because I don’t expect everyone to use all of them. Consulting, for example, is not for everyone. But I included it because some people will effectively use it as part of their search.

On the other hand, I think everyone should do the first two things on the list, Looping Ahead ...