Asking For Help Rather Than Offering And 9 Other Networking Mistakes You Might Be Making
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Julia Austin
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Don’t think you’re first in line
Anytime you ask someone for an opportunity, it’s important to remember that, if you don’t know them well, it’s likely that they have dozens of others in their network who are ahead of you for that opportunity. They have people with whom they’ve built relationships with and owe favors to. If you can’t say that’s true of you, then you’re being transactional. And Nyanue says of those types of connections, “Nobody likes to feel that it’s transactional. There is no relationship building. There is no substance to the relationship. Those are the ones that don’t really pay off….the person isn’t thinking of you for the same opportunities they’re thinking of their friends for.”
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