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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The key to networking is to be a valuable resource to someone else. Not to land a job. Change your frame of reference OP. Reach out, hey i thought of you when i read this, here’s the link, etc etc. It is not a personality trait. It’s an intention. A discipline. [/quote]

I am very personable, always talking to people I meet about what they do and have a genuine curiosity about peoples work.

i have always been someone trying to connect people who may find it helpful to each other, to give people what advice i can.  but as a fed employee its not like i can direct business or refer people to jobs, so i'm not "valuable" to people in that way.  further, by nature of where i live, I NEVER run into someone in my line of work except at my office or a conference -- and like i said my office is very niche and people rarely leave to other jobs.

sending random people i've met links to an article i read? [b] that is so gauche.[/b]  maybe if we concretely talked about something it was a resource, but the whole "i saw this and thought of you" is pretty https://x.com/craponlinkedin?lang=en ...

but the long and short of it, is that no one is paying for themselves to go to conferences..[/quote]

NP. OP you’re kind of combative for someone seeking help. I’m assuming it’s anger masking your depression.

Srsly, putting down a recommendation someone made to try to help you by calling it gauche? Get out of your head and stop being a nasty piece of work. You’re probably working through the stages of grief

I’m a fed. I went to a conference I paid for myself. I networked and met people but I did not get a job from it. I got a job from applying to a vacancy, to which I’d already applied before I even attended the conference. No one from the agency that hired me even attended the conference.

You do to a conference to network, ie meet people and build relationships. Sounds like you want to go to a job fair.

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