A Professional Network Networking is a valuable tool that can significantly expand your opportunities and enhance the effectiveness of your job search.
People are by nature helpful and typically willing to help others.
Networking enables you to use this natural human inclination to further your career objectives. When people advise you to network, they are suggesting that you expand your conversations to include as many people as possible. The list should include every person to whom you can talk. It is not essential that the people you list be friends, or even acquaintances, just any and all people with whom you have enough of a common thread to initiate a conversation. Using this loose definition, most people have hundreds, perhaps even thousands of contacts.