Network Gracefully: Impress the Right People
- 70%-80% of all job offers from a new employer result from networking
- networking also drives promotions and internal job changes
Most unemployed people spend 90% of their time answering job board postings when they should be spending 70%-80% of their time networking.
If you fear networking, it is likely you have only experienced it with people who are very different from you in style and who used techniques that make you cringe. It is the most dreaded career-building skill next to salary negotiation.
We can show you how to network comfortably and successfully using methods meant for your personality.
Impress the Right People
We can teach you how to:
- Create a road map of when and with whom you should be networking over the life cycle of a job opening.
- Become comfortable networking with people you have never spoken to before and with people who outrank you.
- Create a “Strategy Plan” (also called a “Marketing Plan”) that enables your professional and social networks to relay your assets and agenda accurately and to the correct audience.
- Read about “The Hidden Job Market”.
Deliver a Winning Message
- Develop an “Elevator Speech” that is simple, memorable, repeatable, and consistent with the brand and positioning established in your resume and strategy documents.
- Create strategies that allow you to show off your knowledge of industry issues in such a way that strangers come to you and offer to introduce you to their key business contacts.
- Become comfortable asking just about anyone anything you need to know.
- Learn how to stay visible to your network through a sequence of activities your audience will look forward to.
O’Donnell Executive Strategies facilitates professional association networking events for 30+ people at least once every two weeks. We have accumulated a long list of strategies and tactics to share with you that have worked for networkers of every imaginable personality type and skill set.
Contact us today for an appointment.
