This episode featuring only our hosts Brad and Cassie centers exclusively on networking best practices and follow through. Networking can single-handedly help you gain career clarity, increase opportunities, and land the positions you want. Some highlights from this episode include:
- Overview of networking early in your career, what it is and why it's important
- Importance of maintaining an existing network, how to do it and why it's crucial
- Ways to maintain and reconnect with your network
- Using LinkedIn as a primary tools for building and reconnecting with your network
- Composing Check-in/update emails (start of the fall semester for students)
- Personal testimonies from our hosts about how the approach networking connection and reconnection
- Importance of appreciation and giving back to your network
- Traditional and Non traditional ways to grow your network this academic year
- Utilizing social media the right way
- Companies updating their social media
- Informational interviewing, what it is, and why it's a game changer
- Ways to stand out when networking, and strategies to help you not be overlooked
- Thinking about the long game with networking
