Sunday, February 24, 2008

Mapping Your Network

As you start to prepare to change jobs, one of the many things you can do to prepare to change jobs is to map your network. What's that?

Some of you may be familiar with the term from technology where a diagram or schema of a local, wide or metropolitan area network may be developed so that everyone has a sense of how the network has been constructed, who is on it and what the topology is.

Mapping your network is similar.

Start with your first level of relationships--who do you know? Look in your phone book, your online address book, your online connections and accumulate office and home email addresses, phone numbers and addresses. How about people you know from religious relationships? People you connect with on Facebook, myspace, LinkedIn and other social network sites

Your second level of relationship is to ask yourself who they might know who you could ask them to put you in contact with. Do they have a spouse or partner who works for a desired organization. How old are their adult children. Where do they work and what do they do professionally. How about the people from the online networking services. Who are they connected with and who is in their families?

Keep expanding outward for each person and develop a schema of your relationships and of those you are connected with. Once you've done this, you can figure out who you can ask for help and to do what for you.


Jeff Altman

The Big Game Hunter
 Concepts in Staffing
thebiggamehunter@cisny.com

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Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter, is Managing Director with Concepts in Staffing, a New York search firm, He has successfully assisted many corporations identify management leaders and staff in many disciplines since 1971. He is a retired certified leader of the ManKind Project, a not for profit organization that assists men with life issues, and a practicing psychotherapist.

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