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Networking has two purposes: (1) to get you your next job, and if that’s not right now, (2) to prepare for when you need to.
Networking is the most effective way to secure a job nowadays. Gerry Crispin of CareerXroads — human resources consultant to the largest companies in America — says that if you network your way into a company to the point that someone internal there delivers your résumé to the hiring manager, that delivery increases your chances 14-fold.