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Will Your Network Catch You? Here’s a Simple Test
February 3, 2009 | Author: Jessica Howard | Filed under: The Networking Habit
Are you “network ready?”
We’re not talking about cellphone or computer networks. We’re talking about you and your career. We’re talking about the people in your personal network.
- Are they ready to support your next career move?
- Are there enough people out there who know your career story?
- Are they the kind of people that can hook you into the opportunities that are up your alley?
If these questions have you scratching your head, or beating yourself up, don’t worry. We’re here to help.
UpMo.com has done research that shows how your network (your fellow travellers) can accelerate your career journey. We’ve also designed an online tool to help you assess the status of your network and its ability to help you leapfrog toward your goal.
Our tool is the Network Readiness Evaluator.
After answering some questions about your career status and how you network, you’ll receive a score and a “state of your network” report. This will help provide perspective on what your network looks like and how to improve it.
For many of us, networking keeps falling to the bottom of a long to-do list. Wouldn’t it be great to know how to maximize the time that we do have for networking? Our Networking Readiness Evaluator gives concrete pointers that go beyond “Thou Shalt Network.”
Pamela Skillings, author of Escape from Corporate America, did a test-drive of the Network Readiness Evaluator and blogged about it:
“My assessment results felt pretty right-on. I’m good at keeping in touch with close contacts and at staying informed about my industry. I’m not so great at meeting new people. So UpMo has assigned me a to-do list and a series of suggested tasks to help me improve in this area.
UpMo also informs me that my networking style is “Give First.” They describe my approach as: “I feel that helping others is the best way to build goodwill and respect within my network.” That’s also pretty accurate. I am much more likely to reach out or reconnect when I have information or resources to share.
Based on my profile and preferred approach, UpMo created a dashboard of tools that includes an action plan with tasks to prioritize and check off (all of you Type As will love this part). For example, this week I am supposed to be focusing on identifying new contacts that I’d like to meet and researching them so I can avoid asking stupid questions and making a bad first impression.”
Do yourself a favor and check out UpMo’s Network Readiness Evaluator.
Related Resources:
When Your Network Speaks, Does Opportunity Listen?
Networking Tips from a Strategic Job Hopper
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