’11 Helpful Tips for Becoming a Better Networker’ – HubSpot
Leslie Ye says, “My freshman year of college, I had a roommate who participated in an internship program in Washington, D.C. At the end of the internship, the students in the program attended a networking event with alumni in the city. She told me that she and the other interns competed to collect business cards — the “winner” was the one who ended the night with the most.
Hopefully, this isn’t the way you’re networking.
Of course, it’s important to close a conversation by getting the person’s contact information, but treating networking with a “gotta catch ’em all” attitude is a mistake.
Networking isn’t about franticly gathering business cards and phone numbers as fast as you can and then hitting up your new “contacts” for favors. It’s about establishing mutually beneficial relationships — and to do that, you have to do more than speed through a conversation“.
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