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Strategies for Expanding Your Professional Network

Eat Your Career

While I don’t believe this entirely (to me, it’s both what you know and who you know), I definitely agree that having a strong professional network is a critically important part of creating career success. Unfortunately, a lot of people don’t think about expanding their network until they need something—like a job. Get involved.

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16 Rich Habits

Success

Contribute as much as you can afford to a retirement plan. Instead, these successful people use their free time engaged in personal development, networking, volunteering, working side jobs or side businesses , or pursuing some goal that will lead to rewards down the road. Network and volunteer regularly. Set goals, not wishes.

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How Women Are Rising in Business

Success

Other reasons included “not [being] ready to retire” and the loss of their previous job. Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering Committee on Public Engineering Policy,” according to her website. Women of all ages are launching businesses.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

Success

When she was a junior in high school, Arrington founded the nonprofit ScholarCHIPS, an organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring, mental health support and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents. Network for her community work with ScholarCHIPS. Network Inc., How Will You Show Up? ,

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The Solopreneur Handicap That Makes You Suck at Productivity

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

We’ve been so busy telling people to Escape Cubicle Nation , retire to 4 Hour Work Weeks and become Non-Conformists … that we’ve overlooked a few advantages of old-school big business entrepreneurs. It turns out, if you have a good network, there are plenty of people interested in holding you accountable to get things done.