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From Day One: Success Secrets for Starting Your Career
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From Day One: Success Secrets for Starting Your Career

by William J. White
November 2005
Beginner content levelBeginner
272 pages
5h 22m
English
Pearson
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Chapter 3. Your Network: It’s All About “Giving,” Not Just “Getting”

To get ahead, you must be a proven contributor and a skilled networker.

As you start your career, the concept of networking is synonymous with job searching. To get a job, conventional wisdom says, you must be plugged into a network that can push your résumé in front of the right eyes. Once you’ve landed that job, you need to keep building your network so that you can increase your visibility, create opportunities, and secure a promotion or land that next job.

Throughout your career, networking should be a living and ongoing exercise, a twoway channel of giving and getting as you connect with others. You may use a specific network for anything from introductions and advice to leads ...

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