Living Postgraduate Life
Connected:
Networking During Your Postgraduate Study postgradasia explains why it is important for students to widen and diversify their connections during their postgraduate studies.
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umans are social creatures, which explains why networking is an essential skill in our daily life. We exchange information, collect resources and maintain our reputation by staying connected to everyone and everything around us. In this article, you’ll find out why being well-connected all-around – be it with the highly regarded key personnel of a certain field or your fun-loving course mates – will reward you in ways that might have never crossed your mind.
What is it with networking? Benefits, obviously! Making the effort to connect with people comes with lots and lots of benefits. We’ve listed the most apparent ones here: • Higher chance of employment The truth is almost 80% of jobs available in the market are not published or advertised. Instead, they use the power of word-of-mouth to find the right candidates
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for the post. Securing good connections with the right people could lead you into the start of the career that you want. • Developing social skills You will have to develop soft skills such as confidence, listening, curiosity, authenticity, and humility as you strive to create a wider network around you. Having these skills will make you become more interesting and unique as a professional and help attract people towards you. • Contributing node As you are expanding your own network, you can also become a main start to someone’s networking by connecting them to the right crowd they need. This will benefit not just the person you’re helping, but you as well as your network will become more varied and wider. Who knows when the favour will return full circle, right?
