In the current day & age where everybody you meet appears
to have a sort of bachelor’s degree or some type of vague MBA from a school
you’ve never heard of; I think that it is safe to infer that the job market
is-over saturated, and competition is at an all-time high, especially for graduate
students fresh out of school.
Going into an interview, you become aware that there may
well be a hundred other applicants who have similar or superior qualifications
compared to yours.
While this is deeply saddening for me, as well as the many
students currently studying their rear-end’s –for lack of a better word- off
just to obtain a degree, in hopes that it will secure us a nice job in the
future, chances are that despite all the hard work, it most probably wont.
In these trying times, it all seems to trickle down to whom
you know in the world, as much as who knows you. So ultimately, we students are
left with the revelation that the best way to get ahead in the world is to
network and meet new people. The importance of networking has spiked
drastically when it comes to attaining a job in the real world.
Honestly, I am glad to have realized-at a relatively early
age-that the way you present yourself in front of people actually matters.
Connections are a wonderful thing, and can be made through people, who know
people, who know people and so on.
I urge you to get out, attend seminars or workshops or even
lectures. Talk to as many people as you can. Impress those people. It is worth
the time and effort knowing that the combination of the appropriate
qualifications, along with impressing the right people will put you miles ahead
of the masses.
I leave you with this wonderful quote about networking from Dale
Carnegie (I swear I actually know who he is) who said that- “You can make more
friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in
two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
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