In the past, Networking was perceived and is still recognized as an industry event where you rub shoulders with strangers. Meeting strangers and leaving them with your business card to get in touch later or sending an awkward message on LinkedIn. To ‘network’ has changed and one will needs a novel approach to succeed!
What the Future holds for Networkers
This is not the case. Networking as now revolutionized and old tricks might now work anymore. It will be different. Therefore, for you to succeed in this new era, you have to rethink how you do things.
As far as Networking is concerned, reaching to your old friends will be more effective than promoting yourself to people who don’t know a thing about you. Maybe at one point or another, you thought that your old friends have nothing to do with your career. Don’t be misguided and rethink your strategies. You share a lot. Just think of the friends you had from primary school to your position today. They are probably in different regions or countries and working in various sectors. Getting in touch with such people can work wonders and change your life for good. Who knows?
A good example is Andrea Clarke, CEO educator, who reunited with an old friend after 25 years. As teenagers, they had a good time in bars and nightclubs in Queensland. Candice Treloar, the old friend to Andrea Clarke, worked for Telstra, an Australian telecommunications giant. Andrea Clarke secured a job as a Career CEO with the company. This was made possible through the reunion of the two.
Why friends in Networking?
They were straightforward with one another because they had already been good friends. They didn’t need to go through the fuss process of corporate ‘courtship’ to get along. Friends make everything easy and fast. It is also human to reunite with your friends. The career path seems to be lonely and full of obstacles, and this is where friends get in to offer practical and emotional support. Depression runs at a record level in the west despite it having substantial material wealth. Communities and fractured and alienated from one another. The power of a friend can’t be overlooked anymore.
Conclusion
Humans are social beings. Research has shown that those who lived in the era of the Bosnian war are nostalgic for the sense of camaraderie they felt. The fact is that they can’t find that kind of spirit in the present day. This has a lot to say about the direction we are headed to and our current age. To keep it precise, let us say that we will need friends more than ever before to survive.
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