The Right Way to Network.
Second only to not using your network at all is using it incorrectly. Your network is comprised of all the people that you know and also all the people that they know. Don’t just think that because you don’t personally know anyone who works for Company ABC that you’re out of luck using your network.
Ask the people you know who they know — but remember that networking requires relationship building and relationship management. If you haven’t talked to someone for five years, don’t let your first contact with them be, “Hey, can you help me get a job at your company?”
Author Harvey Mackay has a great book on this: “Dig Your Well Before You’re Thirsty.”
