Networking Skills for Everyone

As a career coach, I run a number of networking workshop series on how to become masterful

networkers. And one of the things that I want to dispel right away is networking is not the sole

domain of extroverts. I deal with a lot of students in my class, many of them technologists,

that believe that, hey, they don't have the personality to become really

good networkers. Networking is a skillset you can learn and deploy to really advance

your career and your professional development, and has nothing to do with your

personality. I know skilled networkers who are introverts, and I also know extroverts who are

not. So again, something you can learn, something you can