*WINNER - USA Best Book Award - College Guides Category!
Part of the award-winning 20-Minute Networking Meeting series, the Graduate Edition is a simple, step-by-step guide written expressly for job-seeking grads, whether two-year, four-year, trade school, graduate or doctoral level, and shows you how to use your educational background to express your professional experience. This includes anyone that has gone back to school!
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Built using the acclaimedÂ
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting--Executive Edition networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, the Graduate Edition shows you how to develop the most important career-making skillset in business--networking.
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Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a wide array of industries and professions, combined with 40 years of the authors' professional networking experience, the Graduate Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach from aÂ
hiring perspective.Â
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In this book, learn what networking (
really) is, and how to:Â
* Master the 5 most important parts of a networking meetingÂ
* Create a networking agendaÂ
* Construct key questions to lead a discussion
* Write networking emails to people you don't know
* Expand your professional network with more namesÂ
* Break into the "Invisible/Hidden Job Market" (where over 70% ofÂ
all jobs are obtained)
* Make a networking meeting more effective, efficient, and mutually beneficial
* Execute the above (and much more)-- inside of 20 minutesÂ
* Maintain your new networkÂ
throughout your career!
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Chockfull of real-world scenarios, short stories, meeting examples, and dozens of tips and observations from students, hiring authorities and recruiting experts, the Graduate Edition is an end-to-end lesson on job-search networking founded on the premises of gratitude, positivity, and reciprocity.
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Specifically constructed to clarify and simplify networking for even the most introverted networker, the Graduate Edition is rounded out with a complete set of readiness worksheets that guide the reader through actual networking preparation, with fully written stories that show the entireÂ
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting model in action.Â
Take control of your job-search - and your career!
