Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

ADVANCING YOUR CAREER
Fully 85 percent of the best jobs in the United States are filled
through
contacts
, rather than through want ads or recruitment agen-
cies. Someone has the need for a particular job to be filled and lets
it be known within a network. The word goes out from person to
person, and an individual who could never be found any other way
often surfaces and is directed, as the result of personal connections,
to a job for which the person is well suited.
Many people have found that by broadening their contacts
whenever they got a chance, they have changed their work lives pro-
foundly. When they did change careers, they just happened to know
the right person who was in the right place to make the right intro-
duction to get the right job that saved the individual years of hard
work in reaching that same level of responsibility and income.
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BE A JOINER
The major focus of networking developed by most high-achieving
men and women and self-made millionaires is their regular involve-
ment with groups, clubs, and associations that contain members
who can be of assistance to them in their particular fields.
In my own experience, moving from one city to another, I found
that by joining certain clubs and organizations and getting involved,
I was able to develop more friendships and make more progress in a
couple of years than many people had made in 10 or 20 years.