Growing your social network will help you build credibility, meaningful relationships, and could even help you score your dream job. Are you doing everything you can to have a meaningful influence in your dream industry?

1. IT’S NOT WHAT YOU KNOW
IT’S WHO YOU KNOW…

2. DID YOU KNOW…
About 25%
of job seekers
find success by
responding to job
ads (usually on the
internet) and by
utilizing staffing
firms.
Networking is
the best resource
for finding a job
because 80% of
jobs are never
even posted.
Only a small
number of job
seekers find success
from searching by
cold calling.

3. Learn
3 TIPS TO BUILD YOUR NETWORK
Connect
Give First

4. The value of a network is proportional to the square of the
number of connected users of the system (n2).
1
10
66
CONNECT
METCALFE’S LAW

5. CONNECT

6. Spend time with people with common interests.
CONNECT
Do something • Learn something
Share something • Change something

7. LEARN
The key to online success is
authority. The key to authority
is knowing what the heck
you’re talking about, and being
able to express it well.
-Sonia Simone, Copyblogger

8. LEARN
It’s ok to be
a big fish in a
small pond!

9. LEARN

10. GIVE FIRST
"Mutual caring relationships
require kindness and
patience, tolerance,
optimism, joy in the other's
achievements, confidence
in oneself, and the ability to
give without undue thought
of gain.“
-Fred Rogers

11. GIVE FIRST

12. GIVE FIRST
IT’S NOT ABOUT

13. WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING
PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?

14. Gates & Allen

15. Brin & Page

16. Jobs & Wozniak

17. Zuckerberg & Saverin

18. COLLEGE
DROPOUTS
PASSIONATE
LUCKY
UNIQUE
UPBRINGING
BILLIONAIRES
NERDSPERFECT
TIMING
TALENTED
SOCIALLY
AWKWARD

19. COLLEGE
DROPOUTS
PASSIONATE
LUCKY
UNIQUE
UPBRINGING
BILLIONAIRES
NERDSPERFECT
TIMING
TALENTED
SOCIALLY
AWKWARD
THEY FOUND PEOPLE
THATSHARED THEIR PASSION
AND CHANGED THE WORLD

21. Nate Bagley
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