The importance of Networwing and how to improve it
Developing a network is essential in the professional world because it allows us to be continuously updated and informed of the latest trends of the working market. Social networks have changed the way of acting and facilitated the connection between professionals worldwide and from different branches, in a comfortable and simple way, creating what we know as networking.
It is a great tool that could help the same when we are looking for a job or when we want to start our entrepreneurship, because it can provide us with information about different vacancies as it can offer us important feedback when we are offering our products or services to people of our the sector or potential customers.
To improve your number of contacts it is interesting to attend organized networking events or even create them ourselves, as well as taking advantage of our attendance at events, congresses or fairs of the topics of our interest. At the student level it is more than advisable to belong to a student association where we will meet people with similar concerns and, above all, if they are international as IFSA (International Forestry Students’ Association) or ALECIF (Latin American Forestry Sciences Students’ Association), Since we will be able to attend the events organized by them and by their partners.
But networking is not only about having an extensive network of contacts but also about making effective and quality contacts. For this we must to be active and interact with our contacts, creating a relationship of mutual trust, answering when you are making any query, giving our opinion about their publications, achievements, works or products and, of course, and also publishing ours.
If we are interested about a certain topic, it’s highly recommended that to inform you about who are the experts on it and try to connect directly with them. In this way if we have any query, idea or project, we can know directly their opinion, informally, that can be of great help or a possible future collaboration.
When we communicate with our contacts we must be respectful and clear with the message that we want to transmit and we must accept the criticism that are made to us because it is more valuable a bad criticism than the best of the flatteries.
Summarizing, the best way to improve our networking it’s to transform the cold and impersonal relationship that internet provides into humanizing it in such a way that we become a personal and close relationship.
