Professional Networking For Dummies

This book will explain the essential techniques of networking and get readers meeting and greeting in no time. The book will help readers get into the networking mindset and avoid such self-defeating traps as expecting immediate returns or turning off new potential colleagues.

Includes information on making small talk, discovering where to meet new contacts, overcoming inhibitions and shyness, and getting into lifelong, career-building networking habits. Special information is added on networking tools and technology: networking clubs, using voice and email, Internet networking, and more.