How to Use Networking To Find a Job

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We’re going to talk about your social network, and how important the process of making connections can be to your career. Everything comes down to your self-branding, and how well you’re able to maintain it.

Far too many members of the workforce don’t realize just how helpful career coaching social networking can be – or how necessary. Job offers are made on LinkedIn every single day (if you have a good Linkedin profile). Facebook has led to some amazing career launches. Never underestimate the power of making friends. That’s the first rule of networking.

But the second step of the process is exponentially more difficult. Once the emails and phone calls start coming in, how should you handle yourself? What should you say, and what subjects should you avoid? If you’re a first-time job seeker, these are going to be difficult questions for you to answer. After all, you’re just getting started. How should you know what to say to new connections?

That’s why we’ve compiled a list of our top seven networking tips – what you need to know in order to grab the attention and respect of potential employers (and employer connections).

Follow closely. This is how you make a great first impression on all of your connections. That includes LinkedIn, Facebook, person-to-person, and other marketing experiences.

1. Be Appropriate

Whether you’re on your personal Facebook page or a live forum, you should always be mindful of what you think, say, and type. You should also consider what you share with your followers and your friends. Anyone can add you, and no amount of privacy settings are going to help you keep your information hidden from the world.

We’d be willing to bet that more than one person has slipped through your security cracks. It’s as simple as having a mutual friend who is willing to share your information with someone else. A screenshot can be the end of your career – whether that career is education or business related.

Unless you have an endless amount of trust in each and every individual who has access to your pages, you might want to practice censorship. Don’t swear. Don’t share sexual innuendos. A general rule of thumb is to avoid sharing or posting anything that you wouldn’t show to your grandmother. As a public relations scheme, that thought process can be pretty useful. In short, be careful. You never know what connections – present or past – are watching.

2. Be Relatable

You don’t want to be the girl who focuses solely on her looks and posts three selfies every single day. You also don’t want to be the boy who uses a shirtless pictures as his profile photo and talks constantly about his obsession with being a vegetarian.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with any of these things, but they aren’t portions of your life that need to be shared with anyone else. Your connections aren’t going to be able to relate to you – and that is one of the most important requirements of all.

If they can’t relate to you, they can’t fall in love with your work ethic and the contributions that you bring to the table. By all means, be yourself. But, at the same time, be smart about it.

3. Be Timely

When you receive a message from a client, connection, or potential employer – jump on that message as quickly as you can. It’s all about prompt and thorough communication. If you can’t manage that, you’re wasting your time and the time of the members of your social network. It only takes a minute or two to develop a proper response using basic spelling and grammar rules. You might need to do this several times a day, but this is how you build a network that works for you.

If you don’t respond to your connections, you’ll find that they won’t respond to your either. They’ll also react less often to your posts, shares, and pictures. As we said before, everything is about your brand and the message you’re sending to others. You want that message to be positive, interesting, and immediate. Don’t make them wait for you.

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