If you have been reading my blog, you know that my goal in 2011 is to knock down my barriers to networking by participating in the 2011 Networking Challenge. I am excited to strengthen my current relationships and meet new people in 2011!! As promised, I am going to keep you updated on how I am doing in the challenge. Also, there are quite a few other ambitious career girls who are joining me in the challenge for the new year. Won’t you?
4 X 4 Networking Challenge: January Planning
I have narrowed down the people that I would like to meet with in January and have contacted each of them. Many of them have not gotten back to my yet which is making me a little nervous! But, I think this is just because people are still catching up from the Holidays and hopefully I will be hearing back from them soon. What I am realizing is that the most important thing is to plan ahead so I don’t get stuck at the end of the month trying to fit in all the meetings! I hope that the first month will actually be easy because there are plenty of people that I have been meaning to meet up with for the past few years.
My first step was to make a list of everyone that I could think of that I wanted to have coffee with. I was actually able to create a pretty long list so here are the people that I am choosing to contact this month for a meeting:
- A boss at a previous internship (Date: Jan 14th)
- An coworker at a previous job (Date: Jan 21st)
- A friend I went to high school with (Date: TBD)
- Another coworker from a previous job (Date: TBD)
- A Senior HR director at a Life Science Company (Date: TBD)
- An HR Manager at a technology company that a career counselor recommended I contact (Date: Jan 4th)
- I will be attending an American Society For Training and Development Association meeting where I won’t know anyone! Getting involved in associations and membership groups is very important in networking and I am hoping to make many contacts at this meeting to do future information interviews. (Jan. 26th)
- TBD: Still looking!!
Hi,
I would like to join this challenge for a year…
I know this comment is over 6 months late but I will go ahead, there is no such thing as too late 🙂
4 People I Know:
1. A boss at a previous internship (Date: Aug 7th)
2. A Director at a Bank (Date: TBD)
3. My sister in-law (Date: TBD)
4. A former Finance director at the Nigerian Ports Authority. (Date: TBD)
4 People I don’t know
1. A Professor at Carleton University Canada (Date: TBD)
2. I will be attending a wedding ceremony in Chicago. I am hoping to make many contacts. (Aug. 23rd)
3. A Financial Controller at the Nigerian Sovereign Investment wealth fund (Date: TBD)
4. Director at the Nigerian Stock Exchange. (Date: TBD)
Wish me luck!
That’s awesome! Good luck! 🙂