Networking You Must Follow Through

Networking: You must follow through This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Call me confused. Serious people are looking for jobs and people in their network are willing to help. The people willing to help ask for simple things. For example, a resume. Or a phone number to reach the person. Or an e-mail address where they can send a job description. And get crickets. No response. No follow through. Nothing. When that happens to a person in your network who is willing to help, what impression are you leaving that person? One who would want to recommend you (again)? Or one that now doubts your seriousness? Doubts your qualifications? Scared that your performance from a recommendation would hurt their reputation? For some people, asking for help is scary or hurts their perception of themselves. But the world has changed and corporations will not take care of you. Only you â€" and your network â€" can take care of you. Feed that network. Grow that network. And get over any reservations about using your network for information and help. And follow through. You never know when a person has an opportunity to recommend you to another. When it happens, don’t risk missing the recommendation because you didn’t follow through when you wanted some help. Now, I need to write those two recommendations on LinkedIn I agreed to do for two of the people in my network. Before I get tagged with not being responsive! What a great point. We have to follow through to help our network as well as staying in touch with your network, otherwise it’s never going to help us. This is as easy as writing a LinkedIn recommendation or responding back to an email. When a person is trustworthy it’s easier to recommend that person to other people. Reply Precisely, Karl. The deal with networks is that each person participates in a way that helps others. Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.