Networking with Confidence: Being Yourself When You Fear Being Transactional

I start working in telecom network OSP from 1965 until now as Supervising Supervising planning and re planning of outside plant Project Manager Telephone Expansion OSP Head of Department Senior...

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How should we reach out? Email? LinkedIn? Call? Other social media approach?

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I am always afraid to bother people when trying to network. How can I overcome that?

What are the best practices for networking on a zoom call for the candidate and the person referring the candidate?

How to network at online conferences? What's the ideal way to reach out to speakers or leaders in virtual events?

Given how much networking happens via social media and email these days - how do the inherent delays in people getting/responding to messages impact ways to make virtual networking effective?

Any specific tips for students or those who are building their career from scratch again?

Can you give us an example of a prompt to use when connecting with someone for a position you applied to?

What is the first step to reach out a stranger? Can I have some email templates?

What do you think is the one essential step in networking?

Can you share sample wording for requesting to connect on LinkedIn, and how to check in with people you haven't talked with in a while.

How would you approach someone that you worked with years ago?

How to transfer your skills with MBA degree to financial and banking industry. Many thanks!

What are some great conversation starters?

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What is the best way a introvert can network?

How do you be yourself when working in an environment that is adverse to diversity?

How to become confident and not fear failure?

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How would you recommend introverts to effectively network, both virtually and in-person (once allowed)?

How effectively network during a time that most work is being conducted remotely due to pandemic?

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What are the most communication tips you have to manage up and manage down?

Interested on how to network via LinkedIn, typically with people who currently work for that company.

How to ask someone to connect you or pass on your name to the company recruiter?

Tips for virtual networking

What's the best way to cold reach out to someone on LinkedIn or through your Alumni network?

I don't like using social media, and I generally don't post anything on them. Is it possible to build a network without having a lot of online presence?

What's the biggest mistake people make when networking?

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How do I continue a conversation with a person I met virtually (may be through LinkedIn) ?

I struggle to find the "right people" to network/reach out to, and often the people in the places where I would like to reach out to have little if any information online to try to build repoire...

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How do I approach people I want to network with to get a job?

How to follow up with the people you network with? Also, Sometimes people offered help and I don’t know what else to say except for thanks. Any other suggestions?

How do you find people to network with but not feel intimidated by them?

Whats a good way to cold message someone on LinkedIn with the intent to build a real connection?

I generally don't have a problem approaching people, but when I reconnect with someone I haven't spoken with in a while, I can struggle with answering questions about, esssentially, what I want...

Do you recommend creating an intentional plan of attack for when planning / selecting events?

What is the best way to market yourself without sounding sales-y?

where do you begin the networking process?

Nothing is compelling me to attend this; but the description spoke to me personally.

What do you do with Networking jitters?

How to ask questions, and ask for help confidently, without feeling like a burden, or feeling like you're asking a silly question.

how to overcome the situation when we are confident but while networking we thinks too much?

looking for some tips on the process of networking, from initial contact to relationship building.

How can you really prove what you are worth, without feeling intimated by your interlocutor when he/she is a senior?

Would love to hear tip around networking from / in a remote environment ..

How to be successful at networking without the guilty feeling of asking for help?

What are some ways I, as an unemployed person with no notable connections to speak of, can offer help to someone I network with?

No specific question at this time. I am coming to learn some networking techniques for shy introverts.