Donna Messer Using Social And Traditional Networking To Land Your Dream Job

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Using Social Networking & Traditional Networking to Land your Dream Job This workshop will equip you with the skills and tools you need to cross boundaries, and find that perfect career opportunity!

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Using Social Networking & Traditional Networking to Land your Dream Job

This workshop will equip you with the skills and tools you need to cross boundaries, and find that perfect career opportunity!

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Donna Messer •Pioneer in Power Teamwork & The Art & Science of Networking

•Inspiring and Motivational Public Speaker

•Corporate Trainer

•Published Author of 4000+ articles

•Radio and TV Personality

•Former Broadcast Journalist

Why am I an authority?

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RISE is a systematic process that enables ethical and effective networking.

An Effective Organizational Structure:

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Social Networking – How to use it wisely

• LinkedIn – What does your profile say? • Who is in your network? • Do you Blog? If not, why not? • If you do, what does yours say? • Do you Twitter? Where is the value? • Is Face Book for you? • Visibility – how do you get it?

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Play your cards right! You can collaborate more effectively with a full deck!

It’s important to utilize a full deck of cards when playing the game called connecting!

Be connected to an entire room - deliver your objectives and find common ground.

Simply put, “When You Connect, You Communicate and Everyone Wins!”

Make profitable connections!

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Crossing Boundaries – no one person needs to lead all the time.

When Roles and Responsibilities are defined, working together is far easier and less burdensome.

A common set of goals can be achieved more effectively when sharing objectives.

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Johnny The Bagger

What if everyone on you meet brought value toeach other?

What if it brought value to other organizations?

How would that impact your job search?

We all have something to give that costs usnothing but offers an exceptional ROI.

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Alliances – 2nd Chance

Transferrable skills are an invaluable asset to any group.

Do you know what your overall strengths are?

How can you best utilize those skills to deliver against your objectives?

How would you feel if you got to do what you were really good at in your work day?

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Negotiate

Explore

Contact

OpportunityS

olu

tion

Strategize

Putting the pieces together.

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Everyone can learn to Network – How can we share our ideas?

Orange Big picture thinker, think in “pods”, comfortable with conceptual ideas.

RedThink in terms of chapters, always need a beginning, middle and end.

GreenOrganized, sequential in their thinking - specific and brief.

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Think Laterally!

There is always more than one way

to achieve your goals.

We is better than Me! Harness your

lateral thinking to benefit fromalternative and new perspectives.

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In Person, On Line it’s all about Connections, Communication & Cooperation

= W3

•WHO are you?

•WHAT do you need?

•WHAT are you willing to share?

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Awareness Heightens Achievement A-H-A – Communicate & Connect

Share who you are.

• What do you like to do?• What are you good at?• What are your strengths?• What are your weaknesses?• What are your hobbies/interests?• Who do you know? • What special skills do you have?• What’s your biggest

accomplishment?

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Make The First Minute Count!

• Start with a smile

• Make eye contact

• Introduce yourself

• Let people know what you do

• Explain what you need

• Ask how you can help them

• Say thank you

• Keep in touch

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Become an Effective Connector

Be prepared

Be open minded

Don’t be afraid to ask

Treat everyone as an equal

Build on information, not status

Say Thank You

Don’t waste your resources

Give without expectation

Set realistic and achievable goals

Be committed and determined to do

whatever it takes

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Messer’s Hierarchy of Needs

Self-fulfillment

Egotistic Needs

Social Needs

Safety/Security

Basic Needs

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