Question

Each week you’ve been learning important tools and strategies to keep you moving forward and juggling life, in general. This assignment will help you to identify career resources and explain how the skills and strategies you are learning can help you with your networking. Ch. 6 on careers can help provide you with ideas for needed resources. This week’s brief articles and video on the Electronic Reserve Reading page also provide helpful information. Answer all of the questions in the following table. Respond in 50 to 100 words:

• Who are the people in your life that can help you build your professional and academic networks? Consider your friends, family, current and past co-workers, current and former classmates, teachers, community members, and neighbors. Respond in 50 to 100 words:

• What is a professional organization you would like to join? How can joining this organization benefit you in terms of networking? Respond in 50 to 100 words:

• What are some academic associations or school clubs that can help you with your academic network? Respond in 50 to 100 words:

• How can you leverage social media to improve your professional and academic networks? Respond in 50 to 100 words:

• Identify at least one person who could potentially be a mentor for you in your career. Why and how do you think this person will be able to help you grow? Respond in 50 to 100 words:

• How can you continue to examine your career goals over time? How can you stay current in terms of assessing career opportunities? What would you do if you want to change your mind from one career path to another?

Answer 1

1). When we are just starting it is obvious that we don't have our own connections yet so at this stage the most important people who can help build our professional and academic network is our family. Of we have to choose an academic career ahead our teachers and professors can guide us. They can suggest colleges, write recommendation and introduce with other in academic network. And once we have started working, our bosses and colleagues can really help us build a professional network. Friends can also play a significant role in building professional and academic network, once they are starting to join certain institutions they will have contacts too which can in turn introduced to us by our friends.

2). I would like to join psychological association for example to build up better connections and contacts in this field. Professional organizations can help us broaden our knowledge about latest studies, researches, development of industries, trends etc. Helps us to be better competitors. It can also help us make a better resume. Professional organizations can help us meet up with same mindset and focused people, creating a better networking and this can also help us to stay motivated and encouraged. This can also help us make new friends who have similar goals. Professional organizations also gives us an opportunity to develop our leardership skills by offering opportunities to mentor others, which can in turn help us in self growth.

4). Now a days social medias are powerful sources of information. We can laverale social media to improve our professional and academic network. Social media is where a lot of people can interact with each other very easily without having to arrange any contact or appointments. Mere browsing through the social medias we can help us come across many important and influential people. We don't need mediators to contact and make networks. We can show our works on our social media accounts too, seeing which the people we want to network with can recognize our works and potentials and this can help us grow in our professional career. Same goes for academic networking too. In similar ways we can showcase our potentials send our resumes through this to people who can help moving forward on the ladder.