The People Who Drive Business
No matter what business person I'm talking to, their business invariably comes down to one thing: people.
It might seem obvious, but many, many people act as if business is primarily about other things, like knowledge, education, savvy moves, creativity. These things are good, but all emerge from the foundation of people. What good is knowledge if it's not recognized? How does your education help you if the people around you aren't educated (and therefore don't believe you!)? What's savvy if no one agrees it's savvy? Is a failure ever given the title of creative?
To the point, job seekers, and internship seekers need to take the point deep into thier hearts and consciousness: business is all about people. It follows then that a key to internship and job searching is connecting with people, making a good impression and then following up consistently (note all three of these steps).
There are lots of tools out there now to do this - Facebook, LinkedIn; but in my experience the best way is the old fahioned way, talk to them, shake their hands, buy them a coffee!
It doesn't even matter if you've just arrived in a new country a don't know a single person. Providing you follow a few universal rules of ettiquette, you have absolutely no excuse for not being able to build a great network of contacts.
The network of contacts you build will be the people who mentor you, give you leads, get you jobs, become your clients, become your friends, and best of all - they are the people who introduce you to new contacts.
Stay tuned for the next Blog post on the topic of "The Most Powerful Networking Technique Known to Mankind".
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