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What could you possibly offer them? It isn’t obvious-but it’s essential to get creative and figure it out. None of that is going to change anytime soon.
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The other person knows more people, has access to bigger budgets and has more clout than you. If you’re the junior party in the networking equation, the problem might seem insoluble.
#WOW YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG PROFESSIONAL#
Here are four strategies we can use to become better-more comfortable, more authentic and classier-at professional networking. It’s that no one wants to feel like a user.įor the past several years, I’ve been researching the question of how we can become more effective long-term thinkers, and bring that mind-set into our professional relationships. In both cases, the takeaway is clear: It isn’t networking that’s the problem, per se. One possible interpretation is that the junior professionals, having fewer connections or resources at their disposal to offer others, felt like “takers” because they worried they could never reciprocate. The second is that junior-level professionals felt worse about networking, as compared with their more senior colleagues. What people felt bad about was transactional networking-i.e., networking to get something fast, like a job or an investment-rather than networking to make friends. The first is that the type of networking participants engaged in made a huge difference.