Title: The Savvy Networker: Building Your Job Net for Success
Abstract: The Savvy Networker: Building Your Job Net for Success by Ron L. Krannich, Ph.D. and Caryl Rae Krannich. 2001. Manassas Park, VA: Impact Publications. 113 pages, Softcover, $13.95 Intended Audience: A Major Headings from Table of Contents: The Savvy Networker; Network for Jobs; Myths & Realities; Build Your Network; Develop Job Leads and Conduct Interviews; Maintain and Expand Your Network; Networks for Networking; Networking on Internet How is book most useful for its intended audience? The book clearly defines what networking is and how it can benefit job seeker, offering reassurance and practical suggestions for those who are not networkers. In particular, one of most useful aspects of book is chapter that contains sample scripts for networking activities such as phone calls and informational interviews. These provide a concrete starting point for new or uncertain networker, and demonstrate an appropriate and professional approach. The top five things you learned from reading this book: 1 . Networking is about making connections, building relationships, and nurturing networks. 2. Effective networking has an ethical and practical foundation, and is based on your being completely honest with yourself and with others during job search and career advancement process. 3. You don't need to undergo a personality makeover or become aggressive or manipulative to be effective at networking; rather, you can learn new skills that become natural and reveal the real you. 4. The job search process has appearance of organization and coherence but in actuality is disorganized and chaotic; networking significantly enables you to tap into hidden job market of unadvertised positions. 5. Networking should be an ongoing process not only during job search but also after, as part of lifelong career management and advancement. The Savvy Networker is part of a series of books that Ron and Caryl Krannich have written that are designed to be easy to read, with advice that is easy to apply to advance one's career. This book succeeds on both counts. In just 133 pages, book provides practical advice and welltested strategies to help people learn or improve networking skills to tap into hidden job market. One of things that set this book apart from many other books on networking is that it specifically speaks to job seeker. Where many other books give impression that if you haven't been networking all along, you've missed boat if you try to start during a job search, authors present essentials of networking as part of job search process as well as part of ongoing career management and advancement. From outset, The Savvy Networker acknowledges that networking does not come easily to a lot of people and offers a logical framework to help motivate them to learn necessary skills, as well as ways to manage and minimize rejection. Toward that end, book also includes a chapter containing 26 myths and realities about job-search process. The one that I've never seen addressed elsewhere is excellent description of job-search process as a whole. The authors point out that it appears to be an orderly and organized process when in reality it is rather disorganized, decentralized, and fragmented, with no single direct path to finding a job. …
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-12-01
Language: en
Type: article
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