The perils of not caring enough [Facebook LIVE episode #3 on Standing Out]
If you want someone to have a vested interest in your career, then you should figure out what is important to them first. Start with understanding more about your contact’s professional ambitions. It’s easy to go into a networking conversation with a one-sided agenda but that’s ineffective – it is also a short-term strategy that will not serve you well beyond that initial ask.
A client, Tracey, left the tobacco industry to join a fin-tech firm learned about the perils of not taking an interest in her network’s career the hard way when she did not get call backs nor help during her initial job search because she had not been a giver in the past.
In this episode, watch for the ways that you could proactively get to know your contacts, take an interest in their careers, and help them so that when you need their support they will answer your calls
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