Don't Leave Home Without Them When Networking

From: How to Wow by Frances Cole Jones

• Remember that 7 percent of your impact comes from the words you say, 38 percent from your tonal quality while saying it, and 55 percent from what your body is doing while you're saying it
• Speaking in story will help both you and your listener retain and commit to your message
• Introducing yourself - saying your name - is a presentation opportunity. Don't squander it.
• Delete useless modifiers from your vocabulary. Something is only amazing, terrific, or horrific if you tell me why.
  

Becoming Front and Center of a New Contact

Once you have met someone for the first time at an event consider the following as key in cultivating and maintaining a warm and trusted relationship:

1. An individual needs to hear from you at least 3 times post original encounter within a period of 30 days to develop a strong recognition of you. These 3 contact points can be through: e-mail, phone call, in-person, etc.

The First 90 Days

During your first few months in a new position, you will obviously want to manage your workload carefully, but downtime provides good opportunities for the following activities, all of which are intended to shore you up when your next job loss occurs:

• Network actively with your new fellow employees (i.e., build and expand the "safety net").
• Manage your new relationships; nurture them with the idea that they will lead you to others and in all cases, connect with them on LinkedIn.
• Check Indeed.com regularly to see what kinds of opportunities are out there even though you are temporarily secure.
• Explore the “Hidden Job Market” to gather business intelligence, discover market conditions, spot trends in your industry, and so on.
  

Seven Steps That Could Change Your Life

By Rod Colón

7-Step Job Search Methodology

It is a procedure that’s been tweaked to near-perfection over the past five years but will undoubtedly be tweaked many more times whenever improvements are discovered, tested, and evaluated.

Networking: Repeat After Me

By Rod Colón

OK, so you know the basics of connections, relationships, networks, and networking. You need to be sure to observe the following guidelines in all of your networking endeavors: