I wrote about MBA alumni being useful as a part of your business network yesterday, and by chance I had a long conversation last night with a friend who has an MBA. We started talking about just how useful alumni can be. He said that not only had he found his last two jobs through alumni, he had started building his own management team using people from his business school.
However, he said that you have to be careful not to entirely rely on these contacts. If key people leave an organization you can find that your network has a hole in it. Once you have created the initial contact, you need to work through other people in the organization so that your network is robust and not reliant on one type of contact. That way you build for the future, making sure that you can find the people and things you want in any organization you want to deal with.
# posted by Mary @ 3:51 PM
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