{"id":80,"date":"2018-09-20T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T15:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/?p=80"},"modified":"2019-03-07T07:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:25:33","slug":"how-to-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/2018\/09\/20\/how-to-network\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From discovering new job opportunities to meeting a mentor, networking can play a key role in your career. However, the word alone can make people nervous. Alumni at our recent &#8216;How to Network&#8217; event discussed different parts of networking and gave their tips for how to do it well.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4pfV750IY6g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Top tips from our speakers<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>Come prepared with&nbsp;<strong>ice breakers<\/strong>&nbsp;and try to establish an immediate personal connection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Take the word &#8216;networking&#8217; out of the equation; it&#8217;s&nbsp;<strong>all about having conversations<\/strong>. You network every single day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Put yourself in a&nbsp;<strong>position that allows you to network;<\/strong>&nbsp;become a member of an institute or professional body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The key thing with networking is&nbsp;<strong>listening to others<\/strong>; it&#8217;s about building genuine reciprocal relationships<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Use LinkedIn and send a&nbsp;<strong>personalised follow up message<\/strong>&nbsp;using what you learned about the person you spoke to, thanking them for meeting you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not just about now, relationships&nbsp;<strong>take time to build<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From discovering new job opportunities to meeting a mentor, networking can play a key role in your career. However, the word alone can make people nervous. Alumni at our recent &#8216;How to Network&#8217; event discussed different parts of networking and gave their tips for how to do it well. . Top tips from our speakers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/2018\/09\/20\/how-to-network\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Network&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":285,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/285"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/birminghamgraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}