{"id":247,"date":"2010-05-25T05:31:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T09:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-05-16T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T12:35:45","slug":"are-you-prepared-to-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/are-you-prepared-to-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you prepared to Network?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/are-you-prepared-to-network\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Yes!\u00a0 No?\u00a0 Did you quickly answer yes or no?<\/p>\n<p>If you belong to a professional or trade associations, clubs or community organizations, your professional network is robust and you stay connected to your network, I bet you said yes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you said NO, you may have been working hard with little or no time to network.\u00a0 If you had a long commute, worked long hours, worked \u201chead down, tail up\u201d, were engrossed in family, and day to day life without much time to nurture your professional network, you may need to rebuild your network.\u00a0 Or the truth is maybe you don\u2019t like networking and are just gripped with fear about reaching out to build a network.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, building, rebuilding, and nurturing a network does not need to take tons of time, money or energy.\u00a0 It does require doing some basics each week and if you are beginning or rebuilding a network it will take preparation, reflection time and some time to determine what is the best way for you to network and where to network.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are no \u201cmagic bullets\u201d nor is there a \u201cone size fits all\u201d method that works for everyone.\u00a0 There are basics everyone needs to master.<\/p>\n<p>Networking is about talking, connecting, meeting, and helping people.\u00a0 If you this terrifies you, know you are not alone.\u00a0 But if you know you need to network and you had decided to network, you must overcome the fear or at least find ways to deal with the fear until you overcome it to network successfully.<\/p>\n<p>Do your homework and get prepared to network.\u00a0 Decide why you want to network, what you have of value to offer those you meet, and how you can help those you meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why is it important for you to build or rebuild your network?<\/p>\n<p>What value do you offer your network?<\/p>\n<p>How are you willing to help those in your network?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you said NO, you may have been working hard with little or no time to network.  If you had a long commute, worked long hours, worked \u201chead down, tail up\u201d, were engrossed in family, and day to day life without much time to nurture your professional network, you may need to rebuild your network.  Or the truth is maybe you don\u2019t like networking and are just gripped with fear about reaching out to build a network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[9,11,10,141],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-build-a-network","tag-job-search","tag-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}