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Networking Establishing contacts and building relationships to gain advice, information and leads for career development
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Transcript of Nigel Networking Cds
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Networking
Establishing contacts and building
relationships to gain advice, information
and leads for career development
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In Defense of Networking
Mutual benefit
From student to colleague
Social support
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Goals
Get an academic job
Improve your ideas and work
Promote your work
Establish a good reputation
Invitation to give papers
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Goals
Publications
Obtain letters of recommendation
Understand the culture of your discipline
Intellectual stimulation
Create community
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Key Concepts
Dispersed knowledge
The strength of weak ties
Reciprocity
Structural holes
Articulate commonalities
Connectors, mavens, and salesmen
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Means
Obtain mentors
Other faculty in your department
Faculty in other universities
Fellow graduate students
Attend visiting speakers and talk to them
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Means
Give papers
Contact scholars: genuine!
Web groups
Professional associations
Conferences
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Conferences The action is in the hallways, not on the panels
Attend early
Decide which
Offer papers
Organize a panel
Offer a poster presentation
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Conferences The action is in the hallways, not on the panels
Identify who you want to meet
Attend relevant panels, ask a question, give your name, talk to speakers
Socialize: introduce yourself and others, elevator speech
Organize your own
Post-conference action plan
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Resources
List contacts
Faculty
Business cards
Professional associations
Advisor
Websites (kosmosonline.org)
IHS Graduate newsletter
IHS
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Conclusion
Opportunity costs
Reciprocity
Turn a contact into a relationship, turn relationships into a network
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More Networking Resources
Mary Morris Hoeberger & Julia Miller Vick, The Academic Job Search Handbook (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 3rd edition, 2001) Chapters 5, 6
Philip Agre, Networking the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students, especially sections 2.3,6. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (Little Brown & Co, 2000) Ch. 3
Keith Ferrazi, Never Eat Alone (Doubleday, 2005)
Nigel Ashford, Networking, pp.80-84 . http://www.libertyguide.com/wp- content/uploads/2011/08/CreatingYourPathToAPolicyCareer.pdf
Nigel Ashford [email protected]
