The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Professional Edition: Learn to Network. Get a Job.

The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Professional Edition: Learn to Network. Get a Job.

<div><div><b>*WINNER - International Book Award - Career category!</b></div><b>*WINNER - National Indie Excellence Award - Career category!</b><div><div><b>*SILVER - Axiom Business Book Award - Career category!</b></div><div><b>*FINALIST - USA Best Book Award - Career category!</b></div><div><b>*FINALIST - Foreword INDIES Book of the Year - Career category!</b></div><div><b></b></div><div><b></b></div></div></div> Welcome to The 20-Minute Networking Meeting! This book will successfully serve any job-seeker from any background--field sales to customer service; doctor to bartender; teacher to derrickman; legal aid to construction; retail to management. All you need is desire; the rest is in this book!<br /><br />Built using the acclaimed The 20-Minute Networking Meeting--Executive Edition networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, the Professional Edition puts you in control of your job-search discussions and, ultimately, your career.Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a multitude of industries and professions, combined with 40 years of the authors' own experience, the Professional Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach from a hiring perspective.<br /><br />In this book, learn what networking (really) is, and how to:<br />* Master the 5 most important parts of a networking meeting<br />* Create a networking agenda<br />* Construct key questions to lead a discussion<br />* Expand a professional network with more names<br />* Break into the "Invisible/Hidden Job Market" (where over 70% of all jobs are obtained)<br />* Make a networking meeting more effective, efficient, and mutually beneficial* Execute the above (and much more)-- inside of 20 minutes<br />* Maintain your new network throughout your career!<br /><br />Chock full of real-world scenarios, short stories, meeting examples, and dozens of tips and observations from hiring authorities and recruiting experts, the Professional Edition is an end-to-end lesson on job-search networking, founded on the premises of gratitude, positivity, and reciprocity.<br /><br />Specifically constructed to clarify and simplify networking for job-search, the Professional Edition was written for even the most introverted networker and 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.<br /><br />Also from Career Innovations Press:<br />The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Graduate Edition<br />and<br />The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Executive Edition