Category
Networking
9 articles from fifteen years of writing for senior executives.
Networking at executive level has almost nothing in common with collecting contacts. It is a small number of real relationships, maintained before you need them, with people who can say something specific about you in a room you are not in.
These articles cover doing that deliberately: reconnecting without it feeling transactional, being specific enough that people can actually help, working the hidden market where senior roles are genuinely filled, and using industry events as the efficient channel they are.
5 Tips to be a Successful Networker
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