The 20-Minute Networking Meeting – Graduate Edition: Learn to Network. Get a Job.
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“The best advice I can give on navigating one-on-one networking is to check out The 20-Minute Networking Meeting. Follow their advice and your meeting will be a well-crafted success.” – USA Today College
*WINNER – USA Best Book Award – College Guides Category!
Part of the multi-award-winning The 20-Minute Networking Meeting series, Graduate Edition is a simple, step-by-step guide written expressly for job-seeking grads, whether two-year, four-year, trade school, graduate or doctoral level, and shows you how to use your educational background to express your professional experience. This includes anyone that has gone back to school, and can be used whether your meetings are virtual or in person!
Built using the acclaimed The 20-Minute Networking Meeting – Executive Edition networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, the Graduate Edition shows you how to develop the most important career-making skillset in business–networking.
Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a wide array of industries and professions, combined with 40 years of the authors’ professional networking experience, the Graduate Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach from a hiring perspective.
In this book, learn what networking (really) is, and how to:
Master the 5 most important parts of a networking meetingCreate a networking agendaConstruct key questions to lead a discussionWrite networking emails to people you don’t knowExpand your professional network with more namesBreak into the “Invisible/Hidden Job Market” (where over 70% of all jobs are obtained)Make a networking meeting more effective, efficient, and mutually beneficialExecute the above (and much more)– inside of 20 minutesMaintain your new network throughout your career!
Chockfull of real-world scenarios, short stories, meeting examples, and dozens of tips and observations from students, hiring authorities and recruiting experts, the Graduate Edition is an end-to-end lesson on job-search networking founded on the premises of gratitude, positivity, and reciprocity.
Specifically constructed to clarify and simplify networking for even the most introverted networker, the Graduate Edition is rounded out with a complete set of readiness worksheets that guide the reader through actual networking preparation, with fully written stories that show the entire The 20-Minute Networking Meeting model in action.
Take control of your job-search – and your career!
Also from Career Innovations Press:
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting – Professional Edition
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting – Veterans Edition
The 20-Minute Networking Meeting – Executive Edition
Publisher : Career Innovations Press
Publication date : December 30, 2014
Language : English
Print length : 194 pages
ISBN-10 : 0692352589
ISBN-13 : 978-0692352588
Item Weight : 10.7 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.49 x 9 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #77,233 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #24 in Job Interviewing (Books) #47 in Job Hunting (Books) #106 in Job Hunting & Career Guides
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Customers say
Customers find the book easy to read, with one mentioning the five-step method is simple to follow. They appreciate the networking knowledge, with one customer noting it provides a great template for efficient and effective meetings.
8 reviews for The 20-Minute Networking Meeting – Graduate Edition: Learn to Network. Get a Job.
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Mike W –
What is Networking???? This book explains it!
After I spoke at a top university in the Northeast, a student raided his hand and said “They (educators) tell us to network, what does that mean?” So I did many videos on the subject and wanted to have a book to use as an example. Thank God Perez and Ballinger, published “20 Minute Networking Meeting.”This book is clear and concise, easy to read, easy to understand and is a PhD in networking from 2 professionals that understand the industry.
Jeffrey M Burrows –
Networking expert
Nathan understands both sides of the networking dialogue: the hiring manager and the college graduate. He honors the needs of the employer while sharing how a college student can get AND give value during a networking meeting. His five-step method is easy and effective. I recommend this book to all the college students in our internship program.
Anthony Howard –
Excellent resource
Buy this and get started on your networking journey. Itâs a quick read. Well worth the time and money.
Andrew Scott –
Motivating Book!
This book provides a great template to network efficiently and effectively! The concepts a easy to put unto practice immediately.
Penbix –
Average information
it wasnât horrible, but fell short of the great reviews others had when they told me about it.
Hot Chocolate Sundae –
Five Stars
A great book! It will surely be useful to students graduating soon and looking forward to networking!
R. Francis –
Practical advice from a master networker
20 min. networking is a valuable read on how to conduct and smooth and productive networking meeting. Marcia Ballinger is a generous and expert guide who gives helpful, constructive advice and insider perspective about navigating the search process.
Emma –
MUST read for all soon-to-be or recent college graduates looking to enter the career field
I am a college senior, and I was given this book by the VP of Human Resources at my college. He highly recommended that I read it to aid in my networking. Before reading this book, I thought that networking meetings were not important for me to conduct at this point in my life. However, I now realize that they are my best tools as a soon-to-be college grad. This book walked me step-by-step through networking meetings, including how to initiate, conduct the meeting itself, follow-up, and keep the relationship going. If I hadn’t read this book, I would have been conducting inefficient and unproductive meetings. This is a must-read for all soon-to-be or recent college graduates looking to enter the career field. I have never seen such useful and relevant information synthesized in such a read-able and accessible format! Thank you, Nathan and Marcia, for this incredible resource! It will be valuable for years to come!