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"Connections and Why They Matter"
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Networking is a two-way street. It requires giving and taking to build trust. Staying in contact with your new connections is needed, and looking for ways to help them achieve their goals will develop and strengthen the relationship. It works best one on one because both sides can participate equally.
5 Good Reasons to Network
Finding Opportunities– Networking helps you meet new people, learn about different organizations, and discover career paths.
Finding Connections – Networking helps you find the contacts that can tell you what you need to know.
Understanding the Marketplace – Things change fast. You can’t see what is sometimes coming unless you meet new people with different perspectives, and overall, business connections are essential.
Gaining Creditability - Expanding your contacts and connections will give you more insight and creditability.
Finding new and fresh ideas – You can find new ideas in the marketplace faster if you look for them.
Networking is about knowing more people. Connecting is about understanding people, but it requires more. You join when you take time to listen to someone else and feel genuine empathy for them—helping someone else out of unconditional goodwill—offering sincere gratitude to another, and receiving appreciation from others—catching a stranger’s eye resulting in both of you smiling. Both parties to the connection care about the other one.
The distinction is obvious. You know many people professionally and personally, but you are connected to only a fraction of those you know.
The definition of networking is interacting with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career. Networking is an activity. It is an activity that can be acted upon with great or little success.
The best goal of networking is to develop contacts and connections.
Sometimes Your “Connections Wanted” Will Find You
Algorithms read the SEOs off online posts and profiles, and if you make it clear what you are qualified to do and what your skills are, it is indeed possible for the best network connection to actually find you.
