Well, I guess many of those, mostly in their final year undergraduates or fresh graduates like me must have read or been advised how networking can help you secure a place in the company that you really long for.
When someone advised me about it, I was like, I know what networking is and how important it is but how do we do it? I am not really that outgoing and extroverted so for people like me it really sounds like a huge challenge like the Amazing Race that I used to watch in AxN.
We can find a lot of do's and dont's about networking in the internet but the problem is they are rarely written in perspective of students like me. This post may not be relevant for those who are already skillful in this area but many people who identify themselves as introverts and ambiverts have hard time when it comes to socializing.
The same person who advised first to me about networking shared with me some pretty confidence boosting message. She said that most of us who are afraid to go out and approach people have this inferiority complex, that is we feel that the person who we are approaching to are not normal humans but super humans with extraordinary capabilities and power. So she then said how about viewing the other person as someone like you and me, experienced the same things and gone through the same journey.
This has definitely helped me a lot and I am a lot more confident now when I approach people.
I have been trying to join a lot of events outside campus since you can't be expecting people to come to you and ask about you and be like "I really like you and I want you to work for me". We have to create opportunity so that we can meet a lot of people that can open the right doors for us.
I recently went for a career fair in Kuala Lumpur. I talked to a lot of staffs who were representing their companies and I did pass around a lot of CV's. Although, I didn't hear from any of the companies but I think it was a good investment because it helped me not to be afraid to ask, to talk to people. I feel like I am growing. That's yahoo for me. I love myself for that matter.
Well, we are students and we are always on a tight budget so spending on things such as networking events, books, conferences may not sound fun or right. I like to take it as a long term investment and therefore, like any long-term investments, the returns may not be quick but they are always high that other investments.
So, don't be stingy to spend what's good for you or even if you don't have any money to spend , borrow from your parents, friends or well-wishers but make sure to pay them back.
Gratitude no. 6: I am grateful that I have a smartphone and a laptop and most of all 24 hr connection to wifi.
Cheers!
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