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[quote=Anonymous]Use your networks! Tell people you're looking, reach out to contacts/ family/friends/people from conferences. Always a good idea to keep up with people when you don't need them so they are around when you do need them. It can be time consuming sometimes, but you gotta do it. Meet up for coffee, catch up at a conference, send an email a couple times a year, be interested in their life, etc. Don't always contact someone when you need something, those people are the worst. I met up with someone who was in town for breakfast who I used to work with with a huge network. Did I want to take those 2 hours away from my family? No, but I did it because I liked working with this person and they also offered to connect me with their own network. I helped them out a few times and they are appreciative and want to help how they can. Whenever I am in their area I also let them know and when they aren't away we try and meet up. You can also get the sense when people are just full of it. I have a contact who imho talks a big game. I will send an occasional email now, but there was a time I travel to meet them or attend their long conference (their insistenace) to keep up that connection, but I felt used so pulled back. It works both ways, a former colleague, asked me to tap my network after being laid off recently. I connected them with a few people, but also asked for more concrete asks. Tell me where you think you want to work/roles and I will see who I know/who might know someone who knows someone. Most people I know have a senior role through a recruiter or through a network connection. Apply early. Be respectful even when you're at the top because you never know if you'll be laid off and if you were rude to someone you later might need to ask for help, they will remember that. [/quote]
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