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Welcome to Your Networking Guide
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The official site for the book Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naive Job Seeker by Tom Dezell. Designed to give the job seeker a better understanding of how career/employment networking works, thereby enhancing your networking ability, and making any job search you conduct more efficient and productive.
Best wishes to you! You find yourself looking for a job. Whether currently employed or not, you dedicate a certain number of hours each week to conduct your job search. Quickly, you discover that the majority of this time consists mostly of:
Then as you read many of the fine books available written and intended to assist your job search, various versions and numerical ranges*of two commonly quoted statements continuously appear in your reading:
With the depth of options the Internet provides job seekers, one can easily spend countless hours on their computer performing job search tasks. While that counts as working hard to find a job, how well do you pass the test of working smart? Ask yourself:
- With more than half of all jobs filled via networking, what percentage of my job search time do I spend networking?
- If 80% of job openings are never advertised, how much of my time do I want to spend chasing only 20% of the openings?
Even after reading books and articles on how to network for a job, you still find yourself spending most of your search time in front of your computer. What holds you back from networking?
YOURNETWORKINGGUIDE.COM and Tom Dezell's book Networking for the Novice, Nervous or Naivie Job Seeker aim to help job seekers that struggle to start the networking process. The prospect of reaching out to people for assistance in your job search scares many job seekers of all income levels and professions. Most of you never face the prospect of networking until you engage in a job search. Two big factors that allow anxiety to lead to inaction are:
- A general lack of understanding of how and why networking for jobs is so successful
- Misconceptions and false assumptions job seekers believe regarding the networking process
The site will focus on these issues and other stumbling blocks job seekers have about the process. We greatly encourage readers to share their experiences regarding how they used networking strategies to land key jobs. Experience of others often provides the best instruction. Email your stories to mailto:stories@yournetworkingguide.com.
The author has spent nearly 25 years of his career assisting people in securing employment. Starting with convicted felons, I have worked with welfare recipients, injured workers and professionals up to C-level executives. No matter what level the job seeker, all have shared the same level of anxiety regarding networking in their job search. Watching many eliminate their fears to successfully obtain a new career opportunity is an incredibly rewarding process.
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