Networking for College Students and Grads: Top 7 Steps You Can Take Now
If you had to grow your own food, would you wait until you were hungry to plant your seeds?
Most certainly you would not! Why? Because of the laws of nature. When you plant seeds, you have to nurture them and wait for them to grow. There is nothing humanly possible that you can do to accelerate the process. You water them, make sure the soil is rich, and allow time and nature to do the rest.
So why are you waiting to plant the seeds that can positively affect your career and the rest of your life? If you want to build a strong, integrated network of contacts and friends, you must begin planting the seeds of your career now. If you wait until youre hungry to start planting those seeds, then youll starve before the seeds mature.
As simple as it may sound, networking can be a painfully frustrating effortespecially when your goal is to find immediate employment. Tasks such as building contacts or collecting names and phone numbers theoretically take only a few simple steps. But building relationships requires more than passing and collecting business cards. It isnt the occasional...