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Motivational Speaker Carole Spiers
explains why networking is today’s way of job hunting
Job hunting is the engine of your career. And as a stress consultant, I'm the one who has to listen to that engine straining and struggling like a car on a steep hill.
Today's successful job applicant will be the sort of person who can 'think round corners' and sidestep the usual stresses of job hunting. They will be proactive and not reactive and will see every formal and interview and informal chat as an opportunity.
So what exactly is a vacancy?
If you see it as an official post, waiting to be advertised, then you are thinking yesterday's way. The creative vision of a job is of an opportunity that may or may not emerge in the form of an official vacancy. In other words, you are helping to create the job.
Entrepreneurial approach
One routine is to meet appropriate managers in local organizations, who employ your kind of skills. Then you'll be logged on their files before any official vacancy has been announced, well ahead of the competition.
But truly entrepreneurial job hunting rests on networking - cultivating contacts who become your support network, enabling you to review certain options involving people you already know, away from the pressure of a deadline.
To get the most out of networking, you should study the three main techniques of being a good networker.
First, assert a clear identity. Make sure people know who you are and what you want; define your role and function with particular clarity. Next time round, they may be ready to take up the thread.
Second, be a good guest at functions - polite, amusing and attentive. You'll be favourably remembered and asked back to more and perhaps better networking functions.
Third, always return favours, even if you don't immediately get the chance. This will mark you out as someone to do business with. Which is, after all, the whole point.
Networking - summary
- Don't wait for vacancies to be announced. Approach people yourself
- Long-term career planning rests heavily on the networking skills
- A good networker gets remembered - and asked back
Another key insight from Carole Spiers, International Leading Authority on Corporate Stress,
Motivational Speaker and BBC Broadcaster.
