Name: How to Network | Find a Job in the US by Networking | How to Find a Job | Networking Tips
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If you're an extrovert, this could be really easy for you.

If you're an introvert, the very word may  cause your heart to race.

Either way in this video, you're going to  learn how to maximize your connections

and uncover new opportunities and relationships to advance your career.

Here, we begin the process of finding a job in the US.

In this 10-part course, we take you from here, the very beginning, to landing the job, and negotiating your salary.

Now, I teach English as a foreign language and a lot of my students are interested in coming to the US to work.

But this course is for anyone, an American or not, looking for a job or thinking about switching careers.

I've also put a small English lesson at the end of each video in the course

relating to a topic in that video for my  non-native students.

At the end of this video, you'll find a lesson

on the different ways we use the word 'word' in American English.

For this course, I’ve interviewed three experts to help us understand exactly how to shine as an applicant

And though I’ve applied for and gotten many jobs in my life, I learned lots of new tips on impressing employers.

If you watch this whole course, I have no doubt you will be way ahead of other people

Our three experts that we'll be learning  from in this course are Cindy.

She is currently a recruiter, where all she does all day is look at resumes and interview potential employees.

Before that, she worked as executive director of a non-profit in New York City.

She's looked at literally thousands of resumes and conducted hundreds of interviews.

Steve. He's a small business owner here  in Pennsylvania.

He regularly hires new employees and will give you clear insight into what he's thinking and what he's looking for

when he goes through cover letters and resumes, and what will make him want to hire you in an interview.

Laura she's a career adviser at prestigious college here in the US.

She's been helping students land their dream jobs for years. Laura is going to help you get this job.

Today, we're going to talk about networking.  Why network?

When we're hiring someone that's been referred, boy, they almost always get an interview.

Network because it will connect you to people at organizations where you want to work,

and being connected to someone at an organization can greatly increase your chances of getting an interview.

Ok, well what other ways can you look for jobs and improve your chances of getting them?

I would say the number one way is networking.

And I know that we hear that over and over again, and some of us kind of roll our eyes because we don't love

networking, but it Is, it's played out again and again that networking is the best way to find opportunities.

Networking, again. She brings up LinkedIn. It's a website that professionals use in the US A lot.

So if you're looking for a job in the US, it's important to get to know it, and to use it if at all possible.

Or let's say you're interested and aquaponic gardening, or farming.

That's something that's very niche but that you can just enter the keyword

and you can see people who are actually working in that industry, and it's a way to reach out to those people,

build your network, or to just see what kind of jobs they've had in the past,

so that you can look at those organizations, you can see if those organizations have jobs.

So it's a great way to do research, and extend your network at the same time, and then find opportunities.

Create a profile, create as many connections as you can. Friends, family, former co-workers and so on.

That way, as you do research and see organizations that you'd like to work for,

you can see how closely you're connected  to someone who works there.

Aside from LinkedIn, how else should you be networking to maximize connections?

Laura talked about going to conferences in the field in which you want to work.

Conferences can be expensive, but you can look into volunteering, which could get you in for free.

You can find opportunities just by going to those conferences, talking to people

looking at job postings that people have, and are advertising there.

That's a great tip, I never thought about that, but if you make the effort

to go to a conference and meet people face-to-face, that's really going to help build your network.

And they want to meet you too without having to go through the whole process of trying to find someone.

So if you meet someone you have a good connection,

you're already miles ahead of someone else who just submits a paper resume.

You never know when you're going to meet someone that could have a tip for you,

I've heard of people talking to someone next to them on the airplane

and ending up getting a job or an opportunity that way.

So just talking to people in general and making connections.

But if you're very intentionally trying to network, then I would say

start thinking about who you already know in your network. So friends,

family, friends of family, family of friends, former professors, former teachers, your doctor,

anyone that you already know in your network,

telling them what you're looking for and just

putting the word out there in the universe to as many people as you can.

So you already have a network based on people you know but then they know other people as well.

And then I would say that if you're a college student, your university or college may have a very extensive

and start reaching out to people that way because of that similar shared alma mater.

So even if it's hard for you to imagine  yourself striking up a conversation

with the person sitting next to you on an airplane, you can still put a lot of effort into letting people know

Once you've discovered someone in your networking that you think could really be of help to you,

that you think could really be an important connection, what can you do?

And then once you make a connection with someone,

the best way to network with them is through an informational interview.

So an informational interview is when you turn the tables and you are the one who is interviewing them

about their work or their career as opposed to them interviewing you for a position.

And so those typically are a half an hour, 45 minutes, over coffee, on the phone,

and you're just learning what you can about them, and making that connection so that

while you're building a connection for a potential opportunity in the future, you're also

learning a lot about the industry and it can help you with your job search, just learning what they have to say.

Okay, so if your friend's mom says: hey my co-workers husband works in that, then you say: great!

Can I have the contact information? And if they're willing to give it out, then you just call the person up and say:

I'd love to ask a few questions about your work?

So typically I would say that first contact should be email, just so it's lower pressure.

But saying this is who I am, this is why I'm interested in you specifically,

here's a couple of specific questions I would like to ask you.

Do you have twenty thirty minutes that you could talk to me the next couple of weeks?

And then, you know, you're having this conversation with him, you're wanting to prepare,