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This document discusses the importance of networking for career development and advancement in academia. It outlines various goals of networking such as obtaining an academic job, improving ideas and work, promoting work, and establishing a good reputation. It recommends attending conferences, identifying people to meet, asking questions and socializing. Other tips include obtaining mentors, contacting scholars, joining professional associations, and turning contacts into lasting relationships. The key is establishing a network through mutually beneficial interactions and maintaining relationships over time.

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Nigel Networking Cds

This document discusses the importance of networking for career development and advancement in academia. It outlines various goals of networking such as obtaining an academic job, improving ideas and work, promoting work, and establishing a good reputation. It recommends attending conferences, identifying people to meet, asking questions and socializing. Other tips include obtaining mentors, contacting scholars, joining professional associations, and turning contacts into lasting relationships. The key is establishing a network through mutually beneficial interactions and maintaining relationships over time.

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Networking

Establishing contacts and building


relationships to gain advice, information
and leads for career development

In Defense of Networking
Mutual benefit
From student to colleague
Social support

Goals
Get an academic job
Improve your ideas and work
Promote your work
Establish a good reputation

Invitation to give papers

Goals
Publications
Obtain letters of recommendation
Understand the culture of your discipline
Intellectual stimulation

Create community

Key Concepts
Dispersed knowledge
The strength of weak ties
Reciprocity
Structural holes
Articulate commonalities
Connectors, mavens, and salesmen

Means
Obtain mentors
Other faculty in your department
Faculty in other universities
Fellow graduate students
Attend visiting speakers and talk to them

Means
Give papers
Contact scholars: genuine!
Web groups
Professional associations

Conferences

Conferences
The action is in the hallways, not on the panels
Attend early

Decide which
Offer papers

Organize a panel
Offer a poster presentation

Conferences
The action is in the hallways, not on the panels
Identify who you want to meet
Attend relevant panels, ask a question, give your name, talk to
speakers
Socialize: introduce yourself and others, elevator speech
Organize your own
Post-conference action plan

Resources
List contacts

Advisor

Faculty

Websites
(kosmosonline.org)

Business cards
Professional
associations

IHS Graduate newsletter


IHS

Conclusion
Opportunity costs
Reciprocity
Turn a contact into a relationship, turn
relationships into a network

More Networking Resources


Mary Morris Hoeberger & Julia Miller Vick, The Academic Job Search Handbook
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 3rd edition, 2001) Chapters 5, 6
Philip Agre, Networking the Network: A Guide to Professional Skills for PhD Students,
especially sections 2.3,6. http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre
Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point (Little Brown & Co, 2000) Ch. 3
Keith Ferrazi, Never Eat Alone (Doubleday, 2005)
Nigel Ashford, Networking, pp.80-84 . http://www.libertyguide.com/wpcontent/uploads/2011/08/CreatingYourPathToAPolicyCareer.pdf

Nigel Ashford nashford@ihs.gmu.edu

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