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Find the Right Job or Opportunity Using MeetingWave
01/04/09
posted by John
Finding a new job or getting a better job is always difficult, particularly in a slow economy. There are classified ads, recruiters, online sites and friends and family. All can work, all take time, and none offer guarantees.
The last two jobs I obtained were not through an ad, a recruiter or an online site. Instead, in each case, someone I had worked with in the past had let me know about the positions. Although I’d like to think it was because of what I knew, who I knew had a much greater impact in my finding out about the job and getting the position. It’s not hard to appreciate that real world contacts can help you find a new job or other opportunity. As mentioned in a recent NY Times article by Fran Silverman:
Across the region, business support groups have been swamped with the newly unemployed, whose mantra is network, network, network….Increasingly, these newly unemployed professionals are reaching out, banding together and getting out from behind the loneliness of their computers to carve a path back to the work force through face-to-face contact.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/nyregion/long-island/21Rsupport.html?pagewanted=1
We built MeetingWave to help individuals develop real world contacts for business, professional or social purposes which can eventually help you find your next opportunity. We make it easy for our members to post what we call “Public Invites” for coffee, a meal, drinks or any other activity to meet new people. You can set up meetings to meet potential clients, network with others in a specific industry or line of work, recruit a group for a project, connect with potential investors, find new work or business opportunities, or simply make new business contacts or friends. Meeting organizers decide who they network with and the time, location and length of their proposed meetings. Or, you can browse Public Invites posted by other members and accept any that interest you. If the member who posted the Public Invite approves your acceptance, the proposed networking meeting is confirmed and you are invited to attend.
MeetingWave is a versatile, easy, flexible and free tool for meeting new people and making new contacts.
How will MeetingWave help you find the right job?
The more real world contacts you have, the better your chance of learning about great new job opportunities. The saying “It’s note what you know but who you know” is particularly true when it comes to searching for a new job.
We recommend posting different Invites with different purposes to broaden your reach for establishing new contacts. Post one Invite for a meeting with alumni from your college, another Invite for a meeting with people who work in your industry or line of work, and another Invite to meet with fellow sports fans or with others having common social interests. Posting different invites for networking meetings will not only increase the frequency of acceptances to your meetings (which gives you an even greater ability to pick and choose who can attend), but will help you build your network of contacts faster. You can even post an Invite that explicitly states you are looking for a job.
Regardless of the type of Invite, be sure to create a Profile with some background information to help others decide whether to accept your Invite. Let us know if you have any feedback.
Regards, John
Founder, MeetingWave.com
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