‘Fear of rejection’ is the major cause why individuals looking for a career change hesitate to use networking as the most potent weapon in their job lookup armoury. This is even the situation with senior people who you would have thought anybody would be delighted to obtain a contact from. In 99.nine% of cases this fear is unfounded – most professional people are pleased to obtain calls from like-minded people and are a pleasure and delight to speak to.

(In all my many years of networking and listening to people who are conducting networking campaigns, I have only experienced rude rejection as soon as and that was from Bernard Matthews, the factory farm turkey man. My advice is not to ring him.)

Only yesterday, 4 of my coaching clients arrived to see me to tell me about the job and undertaking offers that they had been presently negotiating and it acquired me pondering about how they had every successfully conquer their original reluctance to network successfully. The ‘courage’ and ‘character’ they had proven had produced a massive difference not just in their work but in their lives.

John Price has always had a individual mission to make a difference in people’s lives so it was only a question of giving him some mentoring on his networking to carry out and concentrate his natural skills for bringing people collectively. Any original reluctance to network quickly faded after the first couple of ‘advice meetings’ with carefully targeted contacts of mine and he is now an advanced player with a growing network of star performers of his personal.

1 of the incredible tasks he has turn out to be involved in is as General Supervisor of Remploy Automotive growing them as a Tier one and Tier two element supplier to major car companies. Remploy is the UK’s leading supplier of employment opportunities for disabled people. It provides work and training in all components of the economic climate – as nicely as its personal factories. It assists over 2000 people with a range of bodily and mental disabilities to find function every yr. In addition, it supports 4,500 people in the employment of other organisations and six,000 people on it’s eighty Remploy factory sites.

As you know we have been involved in major initiatives for many years helping disadvantaged and disabled people into function – so this is a major league result for us. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to hyperlink with John. (0845 130 4344 – United kingdom Lo-contact)

Nigel has provided ‘Lean Solutions’ in the automotive business for some of the world’s most innovative car producers and their suppliers. 1 of the crucial strengths he has until now undervalued is his ability to mediate with conflicting sides – as one of his networking contacts place lately – “You just arrive in – pour oil on troubled waters and they are all greatest friends again, how do you do that?”

Nigel has utilized his networking studying curve to develop his providing as a advisor to companies who are getting difficulty with their suppliers and who want to make the greatest of them. He already has three major tasks lined up and a queue forming. If you would like Nigel to take a appear at your suppliers and take benefit of his knowledge give us a contact on 0845 130 4344 and we’ll try and get him to fit you into his demanding schedule.

After three many years of operating ad hoc consultancy roles, heading beyond networking has catapulted Paul into a new complete-time role with his prior company’s major rivals who market funds equipment into sports activities and leisure environments Starts Tuesday. Now Paul is looking to use his new job (our coaching assistance) and his 20 yr knowledge in the company to improve access to sports activities amenities for disabled individuals. Anybody who would like to assist, please contact us and we’ll network you on – 0845 130 4344

Andrew is utilizing his group-creating and management consultancy experience to network with like-minded individuals who are interested in developing a sporting centre of excellence for kids. From tentative conversations wiith his local football club to meetings with Sports activities England, Andrew’s networking has taken off big-time and we are now planning for a conference at the starting of June on ‘Healthy Residing and Fitness’ (for youthful people) where many of the people on his Dream 100 Target Networking checklist will be gathering to talk about the modern problems of remain-at-house/quick food/no college playing fields kids.

On the same web page in the Independent newspaper final week there was one report on the government’s mission to ‘do some thing about obesity’ in kids and another write-up that reported that 800 planning applications had been submitted in the final yr for the redevelopment of college playing fields. (National Playing Fields Association) If you too feel that there has been sufficient speak and some thing ought to be done about it then please give us a contact and we’ll hyperlink you with Andrew.

Numerous people make the mistake of pondering that the much more people they have in their database the much more efficient their self-advertising is likely to be. I lately noticed it described as “He who has the most heads, wins.” This is a fundamental error that can lead to so much disappointment and wasted opportunity, simply because it is not the quantity of networking relationships you have that is important but the high quality of those meetings of minds.

On the house web page of our internet site at careersnet.com we say (prior to you can begin networking) “You need to be able to clearly explain what you want, so that when you study your market and determine the people you want to speak to you, you can communicate their language and market your future.”

I sincerely believe that this ought to be posted on a stick note in mirror writing on the forehead of every job hunter – so that when they appear in the mirror they are reminded to concentrate on what they are doing, figure out what they want to accomplish, speak to people who have problems they can resolve and assist them structure a way forward. Once you know who you need to speak to it is really easy for somebody like myself to introduce you to a networking contact who can kick-start creating your virtuous circle of networking contacts.

Margaret Stead – Dream Architect, helps individuals, executives and company proprietors marketplace themselves online into new work, careers – creating customer-employer relationships and growing their job satisfaction.

She offers individual coaching, workshops, tutorials, courses and reviews on the telephone and in one to one meetings that assist people just like you do job hunting that gets results. You can discover much more about these fantastic resources at www.careersnet.com