The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Veterans Edition: Learn to Network. Get a Job.

*SILVER - Foreword INDIES Book of the Year

*FINALIST - National Indies Excellence Award

*FINALIST - International Book Award

Welcome to The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Veterans Edition Whether your meetings are virtual or in person, this book will successfully serve any veteran job-seeker from any armed-services or civilian-service background, no matter your rank or professional experience.

Built using the multi-award-winning The 20-Minute Networking Meeting networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, the Veterans Edition puts you in control of your job-search discussions and, ultimately, your career. Learn, step-by-step, the most important civilian skill in finding employment: How to network for a job.

Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a multitude of industries and professions, combined with over 50 years of the authors' own experience, the Veterans Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach designed specifically for veterans, for any kind of job search, from a hiring perspective.

In this book, learn what networking (really) is, and how to:

• Master the 5 most important parts of a networking meeting
• Create a networking agenda
• Construct key questions to lead a discussion
• Incorporate and express your service experience in civilian meetings
• Expand a professional network with more names
• Break into the "Invisible/Hidden Job Market" (where over 70% of all jobs are obtained)
• Make a networking meeting more effective, efficient, and mutually beneficial
• Execute the above (and much more)- inside of 20 minutes
• Maintain your new network throughout your career

Chock full of real-world scenarios, short stories, meeting examples, and dozens of tips and observations from hiring authorities, executives, recruiting experts, and fellow veterans, the Veteran Edition is an end-to-end lesson on job-search networking, founded on the premises of gratitude, positivity, and reciprocity. Specifically constructed to clarify and simplify networking for job-search, the Veterans Edition was written for even the most introverted networker and is rounded out with a complete set of readiness worksheets and checklists that guide the reader through actual networking preparation, with fully written stories that show the entire The 20-Minute Networking Meeting model in action.

Also by Career Innovations PressThe 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Graduate Edition The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Professional Edition The 20-Minute Networking Meeting - Executive Edition

Author: Nathan A. Perez, Marcia Ballinger
Publisher: Career Innovations Press
Published: 11/02/2019
Pages: 182
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780985910693

About the Author
Perez, Nathan A.: - Nathan A. Perez is an award-winning author, national speaker and executive career and job-search coach at Career Innovation. Prior to his Career Innovation consultancy, Nathan worked in the executive search industry in the Research function. Responsible for the first step in the executive recruitment process, Nathan researched and found the candidates for recruitment. Networking is a day-to-day function of his job, connecting with leaders across the country on a regular basis. He has been cited by The Huffington Post as one of the most connected people on LinkedIn, world-wide. Author of the multi-award-winning job-search networking book The 20-Minute Networking Meeting, Nathan speaks on its principles to students, veterans, career coaches, executives and corporate teams everywhere. Nathan draws on 20 years of stage, film and television experience in New York City and Hollywood, and is a member of the Actors Equity Association union (AEA); a voting union member of The Screen-Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA); the Author's Guild; and served as Vice Chair at The Loft Literary Center, the nation's largest literary and writing organization. He was recently inducted as an Honorary Commander with the 934th Airlift Wing, U.S. Air Force Reserve, home of the Global Vikings.