Networking: Focus On Warm Contacts, Not The "Right Contacts"

March 10th, 2010 admin

“Focus on networking with your warm contacts first” – hardly rocket science is it?! Yet so many people (particularly job seekers and career changers), seem to think that networking is all about spending time with the “the right contacts” (whatever…


Originally posted on Career Hub Blog

 
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