AI Skills Sprint: How To Make Networking Easy with AI

Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. And this is the fourth episode of our Squiggly Career Skills Sprint. Unless you start today. Oh yeah. Uh in which case you've got a few other episodes to catch up on. And it doesn't really matter too much what order you do them in. It's more that you are trying things out, that you're experimenting, and quick reminder, just in case you are starting with networking, you do need the daily skills sprint summaries, link in the show notes. emailers Helen and Sarah at squigglycareers.com if you've not got them. The reason they're so important it's where you'll find the prompts that you can literally cut and paste. You'll find examples of the tools and all the links to learn from. So it will make your life so much easier once you've got them. And today we're talking about the skill of networking. Oh, I know it's a bit like everyone some people are like, I hate this one. Don't skip. Skip. Because it's really, really important for your development. In fact, squiggly stat time. Um, seventy percent of people's roles come through a connection. So if we are not creating the connections, we've not building them.

the relationships we need, we have less access to roles in the future. And that is a big part of what makes your career resilient in a squiggly career, that we've got more than one opportunity, we've got more than one option. What we need to do is build our networks in a way that feels authentic. So the way we frame this in our work is think about this, not Not as people knowing people, so it's not you know the amount of connections you've got on LinkedIn, for example. It's not that, it's people helping people. And this works for a couple of reasons. One, you like helping people, we like helping people, results in something called the helpers high in our brain, makes us feel good, makes us feel valuable. So it's a better place to start from to think, how can I be helpful? And then the other reason that this works is it results in reciprocity. So if I help Sarah, she's much more likely to want to help and support me in the future. And if if this is the sort of principle that That you use to build these relationships, it results in what we kind of term career karma. Like good stuff comes back to you over time, and that's what we really want from these networks.

So the prompts that we're going to start with today is all about building your personal board. So we did a podcast episode, and this is a tool that we often teach in our workshops around, you know, make sure you've got the right people around you to support you in your squiggly career, and also make sure you've got a range of people around you, because otherwise, you know, there's that risk of If I have lots of people a bit like Helen, you get an echo chamber trap of people just sort of reinforcing the same things. People just being annoyingly positive. Yeah. That too. We'll come on to that in a second. And also I think sometimes finding Difference can feel hard to do. You know people with different perspectives, people with different experiences Maybe someone at the start of their career, maybe you just don't come across that many people just starting out. Maybe you don't work with anyone who's got

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (11 minutes, 2,501 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.