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Article: It Pays to Cultivate the Grapevine
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Preventive medicine has been around forever. Who doesn't eat
vegetables, floss their teeth or jog to hold the doctor at bay?
But although most folks swallow a daily vitamin without trouble,
the notion of keeping their careers healthy during good times as well
as bad comes as a bitter pill.
Exhibit A is the dreaded act of networking.
"Most people miss the boat here," says Lynne Waymon, a career
consultant and trainer based in Silver Spring. "They see it as being
manipulative or pushy. It is the route to your next job."
A well-developed list of contacts makes all the more difference
when the economy slows, personnel experts say. Who better than
friends, former co-workers or neighbors to spread ...
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