Improving Your Face$-$to$-$Face Networking Skills

Networking requires the ability to build and maintain a strong, broed professional network of contacts and relationships. This activity Important because the career competency of networking will play a critical role in your ability to get a job after graduation and to pre your career.

The goal of this exercise is to challenge your knowledge of tips for improving your networking competencies.

Match each person to the tip for improving your networking competencies that his or her description best represents

Be mindful

$2$ Identify your career goals

Build personal connections

$4$ Create a positive mindset

$5$ Follow$-$up

Network with a purpose

$3$

Rahim doesn't want to attend the local young professionals mixer this Friday. Social Interactions like this can be draining for him. He decides to attend because it represents a chance to make a new buddy or two$-$something he wouldn't normally get the chance to do because he's a natural homebody.

Liz wants to be promoted to executive vice president at her company in the next three years. She doesn't personally know any of the current executive VPS$,$ but her supervisor has offered to accompany her to the company holiday party and may be able to introduce her to some of them.

Cerie has decided that once a month she will invite a different work colleague to have lunch. The catch is that the colleague has to be someone she has met once or twice but doesn't know very well.

Josh is meeting lots of new people this week at his annual Industry conference. Each time he gets the chance to chat with someone new, he asks them "What are you most excited about in your job these days?"

Jacques turns his phone on silent and puts it in his back pocket whenever he attends work$-$related social events.

No

Avery keeps a list on her phone with the name and company of every new contact she makes. Once a week she checks the list and sends a quick email to any new acquaintances she wants to keep in contact with.