Networking during the coronavirus pandemic requires strategic tact and persistence.
Cultivate your work relationships with acquaintances and strangers before you make a big ask to make it less transactional.
” with people they see rarely and don’t know well than through relationships with people they see often and do know well.
It doesn’t have to be a person or activity in common; it can be a shared career experience. “What is it that you’ve experienced that they’ve gone through? Did they have an unusual shift in their career around the time that you did?” Watkins said you can ask. “Did they switch from accounting into marketing and you did the same? That’s a conversation opener.”Lisa Orbé-Austin
These inquiries work because they don’t feel like the person is “going to leverage that into pitching me something,” she said. Watkins said that it helps to make your job-related requests specific when you do finally ask. If you were recently laid off and want advice on how to pivot your career, you could ask the person, “Do you have any advice you could give me on x, y, z?” Or, if you really want to work at a company but you don’t see the right position yet, you can ask, “Do you know of any openings in the pipeline?” she said.
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