How many productive people have you connected with in the last 8 months of this year? Understand that to rise to the next level, you must deepen your capacity to connect with people closer to decision centers. Politicians keep recycling the usuals because those are the ones who are always around them. Yes, only the visible get rewarded most of the time. In the corporate world, it is the same thing: you need to be visible for someone to mention and recommend you in your absence!
In other words, your job performance cannot recommend you because jobs/performance do not talk. Only humans recommend people, and that means people need to know you, even as you do a great job.
Check carefully, from MTN to Zenith Bank to Dangote Cement, and beyond, most of the senior jobs are not advertised in any newspaper in Nigeria. But weekly and monthly, those positions are being filled. How? A networked system where the visible are tabulated, and seasonally checked, to see if they are open for opportunities, exist.
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“Please who can run this new business for us”, the Chairman asked. Names will begin to fly. “Let’s call our recruitment consultant to check if s/he is available”, he responded.
Good People, #network yourself into a #productive system because only humans, NOT work, recommend people.
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