The Importance of Career Networking
Networking can make a 10x difference to your career graph.
Job seeking is a term known to all of us. You could either be looking for a new job or could have been looking for one in the past or may need to look for one in the future, either way, we are all looking for means or ways to achieve our dream jobs. Looking for a job could seem to be quite the hassle, with such a diversified pool of talent and specializations these days. However, it is not all that intimidating if you combine the right networking skills with your normal job seeking efforts. All of us have had personal experiences or known of people who have had their job history quite sorted because of knowing the right people. Essentially, you can conclude that there is always someone looking for you, you may just not have met them yet. How you meet this person or persons, wholly depends on how well do you network for your cause!
Research has shown that about 60% of jobs have been found through the art of networking. The best job-seeking advice would, therefore, be to increase your number of contacts –family, friends, school and college alumni- anyone that you feel might help you get a job. Thus, it is necessary that you network with people and have clarity of your motives. This will be of immense help in landing you various opportunities suitable for your career.
What we essentially talked about here was career networking, the art of building solid contacts through skillful interactions, widening your network and exploring potential career openings with their help, intentionally or unintentionally. To be even more specific, career networking involves the use of personal, academic, familial or business contact to help in your quest for a job. It will also help you achieve your career goals and get a better prospect in the future.
Networking also helps you climb the social ladder and get a better and more important position. It is a great way to know what is happening in and around and grab up the best opportunities that come your way. Also keep in mind that once you have made contacts, don’t lose them, you never know when you might be in need of those contacts.
If you are someone who spends a lot of time online and feel you don’t have time for face to face interactions, then worry not, because social and digital networking is gaining much importance today and for all the right reasons! In this fast-paced digital world, you either keep with the times or get forgotten.
You need to make sure that you aren’t forgotten through any platform that you find comfortable. While networking, you will find many people who come from the same background as yourself and share the same thought process. If you want to stand apart from the rest and make your own unique mark on every person you meet, you ought to have a creative approach to maintaining the relations with your network of people. If normal people share business cards, you need to be a step further to make sure your identity, embedded in your card, does not get lost amongst the plenty of cards people exchange every day.
LinkCards is here to give you that unique approach. With us, you can digitally send them your business cards and vice versa. These cards will be safe in their e-wallets and you can now know that every contact you make can be as permanent as you want it to be!
Be a part of the digital revolution of career networking!
