Professional Network

Professional network is a key to your professional career.

You want to change jobs to better bounce and grow in your professional career, take time to reflect, because it often involves some risks.

What is a professional network?

A professional network offers numerous opportunities. It is therefore strongly advised to cultivate it to get:

* a new job that will allow you to grow more quickly,

* new clients in order to achieve your goals and thereby to apply for promotion.

The network consists of personal and professional relationships.

* Personal relationships: family circle, friends, fellow students, leisure and associative partners.

* Professional relationships: clients, former colleagues, professional organizations.

To better bounce in your professional career, so you go to develop your network to extend your range.

How to get a good professional network?

For career development, you must have a good professional network.

To do this, you will have to invest and establish an action plan, that is to say, enlarge your network, consolidate and apply it if necessary.

Enlarge your network

You already have an existing network that needs to expand, so you are going to appeal to:

* social networks,

* professional organizations: networks of entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs clubs,

These people must be complementary, that is to say, own multi-skill services.

It is also important to invest personally in associations, this is always appreciated to give time to others.

Consolidate your network

For your professional network to be viable, it must be sustainable. Your main objective will be to keep in touch to further consolidate the latter:

* take a careful care in the evolution of each member of your network,

* do not forget to share your professional development,

* multiply meetings: conferences, seminars, discussion evenings, etc.

Solicit your network

The time to solicit your network has arrived. To do this, you must know that you need commit yourself to help others, so it is a reciprocal commitment therefore of mutual exchange.

It is not easy to seek your network, because the person you have contacted to assist you, is personally committed with another person of your network.

So you will:

* have a positive attitude,

* reassure your skills, qualifications and experiences during your professional career, etc.

in order that the solicited person is organizing a meeting that will be crucial to boost your career.

Do not make the mistake of being manipulative or domineering, to the risk that all doors close around you.