HOW TO GET A JOB USING YOUR NETWORK

By Sital Ruparelia and Andy Lopata

A unique 60-minute audio programme delivered alongside one of Europe’s leading networking experts, Andy Lopata. Plus a copy of the “50 Networking Tips For Job Seekers” check list

Are you struggling to find your next job? Fed up with all the rejections? Know you should be networking more but need some help? Need some help with improving your networking skills?

Trying to find a job in the current job market is a challenging prospect, regardless of the sector or geographic location you are in. Despite signs of economic recovery, conditions within the employment market are likely to remain challenging for some time yet due to the lag between economic growth and the employment market.

Over the last 2 years we’ve seen large scale lay-offs, fewer jobs, more people job searching, tight recruitment budgets and a dramatic fall in vacancy numbers.

But one employment trend that’s on the increase is the proportion of people finding jobs via networking and referrals. And as employers look to control costs, those that are hiring are doing so through referrals and contacts where possible.

Which explains why something like 70% of vacancies are filled by networks and referrals.

So whilst you may be spending much of your time applying for jobs online, in the papers and via recruitment firms, in the current market-place this simply is not the most effective use of your time.

There are opportunities out there and people are still finding jobs. But an ever-increasing proportion of those jobs are being filled via referrals and networks.

But when it comes to networking to find work, many people find it difficult and uncomfortable.

If you are like many job searchers, you’re probably struggling with some of the following challenges:

  • You’re applying for countless jobs via adverts and recruitment consultancies, but finding it difficult to stand out amongst the thousands of other job seekers.
  • You’ve been told to focus much more on networking, but don’t know where to start.
  • On the whole, you don’t find networking a very comfortable experience.
  • Just the term ‘networking’ makes you feel awkward and so you try and avoid it wherever possible.
  • You’re networking but don’t think you know enough of the right kind of people to have an impact.
  • If only you knew how to connect with the right people, you know you’d be able to create more job opportunities.
  • You feel as if you’re networking like crazy – but nothing is happening.
  • You’re meeting lots of contacts, making plenty of calls, networking online and still not attracting opportunities or job leads, and you wonder where you’re going wrong.
  • You’re attracting job opportunities via your network, but they are often not appropriate.
  • You’ve heard all the buzz about networking online, but are unsure what you should or shouldn’t be doing.
  • You want to move beyond the social interaction and understand the best way to attract job opportunities.

What you are looking for is:

  • A proven networking approach that works.
  • Some advice on the ‘what, where and how’ of networking to find a job.
  • A solution that helps you find and attract the right kind of job opportunities.
  • An approach that doesn’t feel ‘salesy.’ You want to find opportunities, but want to do it in a way that doesn’t feel awkward or insincere. A solution which enables you to find your next job, but also to establish and cultivate genuine relationships, and that will strengthen your long-term career prospects.

So What Is This Solution?

We’ve gathered our best advice on job-searching and networking into a single, easy-to-follow plan and made it available in a 60-minute audio programme.

Everything you need to know to successfully find a job using your network in 6 simple steps. Something that will cost you next to nothing when compared to being ‘trained’ to network:

HOW TO GET A JOB A JOB USING YOUR NETWORK
Audio Programme
Brought to you by
Career Expert Sital Ruparelia and
Networking Expert Andy Lopata

Here’s a summary of what you’ll get in this audio programme:

  • Exactly why networking is the single most effective way to find a job in the modern economy
  • The 4 key principles of networking that you must adhere to. If your current networking is not yielding results, you’re probably not following these principles
  • The 6 key steps to finding a job using your network. Missing just one of these key steps will dilute your impact and limit your job prospect
  • Exactly who you should be networking with
  • Ideas and suggestions on where you can network
  • How to make the best use of social media platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook
  • How to find job opportunities even if you have a very small network
  • Success stories and examples of people just like you who have found jobs via their network

How Can I Use It?

You can use the audio programme in 3 different ways:

  1. As a complete step-by-step guide to networking to find a job. If you have little or no experience of networking to find job opportunities, you can use the audio programme as your complete step-by-step guide. You can work at your own pace and implement whatever you feel comfortable with.
  2. As a reference point.If you’re about to make a call, send an email or meet a contact, you can quickly dip into a section of the audio to get some quick suggestions and ideas as and when required.
  3. As a tool to continually improve.Networking is a skill. And like any skill – whether it be the ability to sell products, swing a golf club or cook a meal – you can always improve. So if you are an experienced networker, this audio programme will provide some useful tips and techniques that will help you improve your skills still further. This will help you not just find a job now, but help you find further opportunities and career moves in the future.

How Will This Audio Programme Help Me?

You’ll be able to tap into the ‘hidden job market’

- You’ll be able to find and attract opportunities via your network that aren’t even being advertised in the public domain

You’ll increase your chances of succeeding at interviews

-  By uncovering opportunities that are not being advertised, you’ll be interviewing for roles with less competition and so you’ll drastically increase your chances of securing a job

You’ll reduce the time it takes to find your next opportunity

- The recruitment and interviewing process when hiring via referrals is often significantly faster than when using adverts, simply because there are fewer candidates to process

You’ll reduce the stress levels associated with being out of work

- When your search process is based on talking to people you know rather than just emailing faceless job sites or recruiters you don’t know (and who sometimes don’t return your calls), you feel less anxious and much more in control of your destiny

You’ll potentially earn more in your next role

- When a firm doesn’t have to pay a recruitment fee or hefty advertising charges to recruit, it frees up a budget which can sometimes be used to invest in the newly-recruited person

You’ll improve your long-term career prospects and earnings potential

- By focusing on job searching via your network you will cultivate and strengthen relationships which will become the backbone of your career success over the long term

In addition to helping you create opportunities via your network now, the audio will also help you find future roles through your network and help you advance your career over the long term. So if you’re struggling to find your next job and want to tap into the hidden job market through your network, order your copy today.

Ordering Details for this Audio Programme

This is what you get when you order this programme:

  1. How To Get A Job Using Your Network audio programme
    A 60-minute Online Audio (mp3 format) that you can listen to on your computer or download (and put on your iPod or Mp3 player). This audio is divided into several parts for easier downloading and listening.
  2. A check-list of 50 Networking Tips For Job Seekers in pdf format that you can print out and refer to over and over again.
  3. A 100% money-back guarantee of satisfaction.

All this for only £17 (approximately US $28 or EU €19)
(yes, I know it’s not enough, but I want to make this programme available to as many people as I can)

Order the “How To Get A Job Using Your Network” Audio Programme.

If you think this programme is what you’re looking for, I invite you to order online by proceeding to our secure shopping cart. Click here now

About Andy Lopata

Labelled ‘Mr Network’ by The Sun newspaper and one of Europe’s leading business networking strategists by the Financial Times, Andy Lopata is the co-author of two books on networking. Andy is a featured columnist for the US magazine ‘The National Networker’ and has a regular column in Business Matters magazine and 4 Community magazine, as well as being quoted in national press, including The Sunday Times and The Guardian.

Andy now works with companies from one-man bands to global names such as NatWest Bank, Merrill Lynch and Capita to help them realise the full potential from their networking

For further details about Andy’s work, click here.