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BOOK REVIEW: Highly Effective Networking (Part one of four)

Highly Effective Networking: Meet the Right People and Get a Great Job by Orville Pierson

This book offers concrete tips and direction for improving your networking efforts.  The main message of the book is that your Core Message tells your Target Market how effective you will be in doing the work described by your Professional Objective. Plan it carefully. It will make your networking more productive.

Create a Project Plan for your Job Search.

An effective Project Plan includes:
1. Professional Objective
2. Target Market
3. Core Message

A Professional Objective indicates what kind of work you want to do. Being able to state your Professional Objective is important because it focuses your search activities, enables other people to help you, and allows you to prepare a highly effect Core Message for use in resume writing and interviewing.

Upcoming blog post will cover information on Target Market, Core Message and Productive Networking.

For your convenience, we've included a link to Amazon to read more about the book or to buy it now.

 

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The UIAA Alumni Career Center provides lifelong career management and job search assistance to Illinois, UIC and UIS alumni.  The ACC Blog will provide alumni with career tips, job and company highlights, event announcements, alumni profiles, news & trends and resource & book reviews.  We welcome your comments and questions here or through careers@uillinois.edu.

 

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