Career Networking: How to develop the right contacts to help you throughout your working life

by Laurel Alexander

Offers of work can be brought in by systematically networking with other people. This book aims to help the reader take control of their working life through setting goals, assessing their networking needs and cultivating a supportive network. By working step-by-step through each practical chapter, the reader will be shown how to develop and plan a career through other people. It shows how you could be seen as a specialist selling something everyone wants using effective communication skills, assertive behaviour and being seen as a positive person. The book covers areas such as how to network in a room, how to gather information anywhere from anyone, networking using Email and the Internet and gives further information on starting your own network and getting on in other people's networks.

136 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1997