What is Networking?
In short, these are all the useful contacts you create in the area where you work, study or want to develop. However, it is important to clarify that this network is not for your personal benefit and use. The people you are committed to have the same or similar interests and tend to help you, but they also rely on your help in pursuing their goals. To avoid misunderstandings, let us set a simple example: You're a programmer and you've been working in a small company for the last year. Your goals are far greater, for example, to work for Google. But besides keeping track of their job ads regularly while you're gaining experience and experience, you also try to connect with people who already work for the company. You are thus gaining the opportunity to draw information from the source, as well as to create a good impression for yourself. At the age you are, you have probably already created a lot of contacts and friendships in your professional field. You certainly have contact with colleagues from the university, perhaps even some professors. While you were looking for work, you expanded the circle of people you know with people who are involved in recruitment or they themselves with employers, managers. So you already have your little network of contacts. You will start expanding and enriching it until you have the right person and the right position to apply for. But it is important, in the meantime, to remember that for one of your acquaintances, you may be the person in the right position who with a simple recommendation opens the doors to the dream work. That is, Networking is based on the mutual and honestness of people associated with common interests related to work.How do we find the right contacts?
- Offline To find the right people, you need to find the places to meet them. So start to be interested in all the events in the area where you work. Seminars, conferences, presentations and any type of forums you will meet suitable people. However, choose topics that are really interesting to you and will be useful for you to listen. However, we are not talking about a human capital increase but about contact with people you are on a wave.
- Online There are many ways here because the Internet today is something of an alternative reality where we spend most of our time. One of the easiest and most convenient is to make an account in LinkedIn, which is essentially a professional social network. It will not only give you relatively easy access to different people, but it will help you communicate with them daily. In the form of posts and comments on different topics, you can exchange information and opinions on various issues as well as inform yourself about upcoming events that interest you or promote an event that might interest others.
In which spheres is English mandatory?
Here the short answer is - well, in almost everyone! Unless your interests are closely related to the development and study of Bulgarian language, you will need English for almost everything else. The Internet has made the world a much smaller place, and communication is no longer limited by distance. English, in turn, somehow seized the functions of a common language, especially in business communication, and it made it a mandatory second language for the whole world. English will not only give you the opportunity to communicate, it will expand your business opportunities or find a job or promotion. And here it is important to add that when your language is needed not just for fun, but for work, it is good, no, it is mandatory, it is a very good level. So, regardless of the level of expertise in a given area, if you want to grow and develop, work on your English:- Make sure your level is high enough to communicate without a problem - written and spoken;
- If English is not your main working language at the moment, please make sure to maintain it - Save Course, participate in online discussions;
- Control business talk. Yes, there is a difference between ordinary and business-speaking in every language. Make sure that you understand and use all words and expressions appropriately to sound professional in business communication;
- Control the specific terms for your profession in English.