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Career Sin # 3: Network fail
Networking is without a doubt crucial in connection to finding
and keeping a job.
Being a foreigner though in many case automatically means
no professional networking. There are of course exceptions of
the rule but it is a fact that foreigners find it incredibly difficult
to create a professional network.
As a result foreigners are excluded from the work market
where relations mean job opportunities.
Last but not least, the lack of a professional network often
results in lack of recommendations or access to specialized
professional literature (provided by a union for example).
What to do?
What to do is almost a rhetorical question here:
Network.
The internet gives luckily the opportunity to actively network
even if we find it difficult in real life. Use professional channels,
join groups, forums, communities.
You have to still make an effort to network “physically”. Join
your professional union, connect with professionals (maybe
alumni from your university) and consciously maintain optimal
networking levels.
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