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Networking: Business and Social Networking
Many people think of business or social networking as circulating around a room and exchanging business cards. But a broader view of business and social networking is that it creates a pool of contacts from which you can draw leads, referrals, ideas, and information for your job search and career progress. You can network without ever attending an official business or social networking event, although attending events is useful in networking. Find out more about how to do business and social networking successfully.
Tips for Successful Business Networking
Business networking is essential to a successful career. You cannot advance your career, explore new areas of interest, and open doors to new opportunities without business networking. It's best to start business networking before you need a network. Find tips for building a business network.
Networking Love
Human Resources networking is essential to career advancement and professional success. Human Resources networking helps your continuous learning and provides access to a widespread sharing of ideas, an exchange of views about philosophy and theory, and contact with best practices. Human Resources networking can be scary and difficult, especially when you need help with something such as a job or…
Support Take Your Coworker to Work Day
Take Your Child to Work Day has become a tradition on the fourth Thursday in April in some workplaces. But, at the TechSmith Corporation, the concept morphed into an opportunity for on-the-job training, and a new form of job shadowing. This story demonstrates employee ideas that you might want to incorporate in your workplace. But, it also lays...
Social Media Should Rock Your World
Social media participation is an essential tool in networking with professional contacts, making new contacts, recruiting employees, and keeping in touch with the world. If you’re not participating in the top social media and networking sites, the world is leaving you behind. Become involved on the social media Web sites while your...
Use LinkedIn for Recruiting Employees
Do you use LinkedIn an other social media sites for networking and recruiting prospective employees? If you're not, you should be. In this age of social networking, all of the qualified talent is networking online.
How to Develop a Social Media Policy
Your prospective, current, and former employees, customers, and vendors are all hanging out on social media sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. You need to monitor social media to learn what all of these stakeholders are sharing and saying about your company, your employees, and your workplace. You need a social media policy.
What's Your Strategy for Keeping Your Job?
No matter your job or your industry, this year is a challenge for employment. In 2008, 48% of employers laid people off, according to a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) survey cited at CNNmoney.com.
To Drink or Not to Drink?
To drink or not to drink at work related events is a question every employee has to ponder for one occasion or another. Whether the business occasion is lunch during an interview, the company holiday party, or a staff networking event on Friday afternoon, alcohol is usually an option. My limit is two. How about you? Make your decision about how much to drink before you are faced with choices.
Network Your Way to a New Job or Career
Many people think of business networking as circulating around a room and exchanging business cards. But a broader view of business networking is creating a pool of contacts from which you can draw leads, referrals, ideas, and information for your job search. You can network without ever attending an official business or social networking event,...
Your Image Is You: Communication and Appearance in Networking
Successful people believe their success is attributable to mutually beneficial relationships, as much as it is due to technical skills or business knowledge. Your communication and the image you present create the first impression - often the lasting impression - on people you meet. Want a more professional image? How you present yourself is the...