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From: <LinZlev@aol.com>
Date: Sep 24, 2011 12:13 PM
Subject: meaningful post from jibberjobber.com blog
To: <linzlev@aol.com>
please read to the end. LL
Job Seeker Networking Mistakes, by Jason Alba
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Yesterday I shared a post I wrote about _my first networking meetings as a
job seeker_
(http://www.jibberjobber.com/blog/2011/09/22/networking-meetings-for-professionals-in-transition-go/) .
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It made me think about my biggest mistake trying to "network."
For a long time I didn't get much out of the meetings, until I changed
something.
My mistake wasn't that I didn't have business cards, or that my 30 second
commercial was as bad as everyone else's.
My mistake was that I went to those meetings with the wrong purpose in
mind.
I was hoping to get filled, and get questions answered.
Week after week I went, hoping to get. And I didn't get as much as I
needed, and I felt unfulfilled.
Then, I realized I should go to those meetings and GIVE. I listened for
opportunities to give leads, or introduce contacts. I looked for chances to
help, and strengthen, and encourage.
When I switched from hoping to GET to wanting to GIVE, the meetings, and
the results, completely changed.
I finally looked forward to going to those meetings.
I made more meaningful contacts (since I was a giver).
I always left feeling fulfilled.
And I started to get more. I got leads, and ideas, and encouragement, in a
way that I wasn't getting before.
I don't know what your mistakes are right now, but if you are networking
to GET, I encourage you to take a few months and concentrate on GIVING, and
see how that goes… see what's different.
For me, it made all the difference!
And that's the point of it all! If you don't like the results, are not
getting the outcomes you seek, CHANGE your thoughts, your actions, or the
perspective, and you'll get different results.
It works! And keep coming back to meetings.
Our Next Parsippany meeting is October 14. register here:
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Warm regards,
Linsey
Linsey Levine, MS
CareerCounsel
Creating Conscious Career Paths & Connections
Home Office Phone: 914-923-9233
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