Article: It Pays to Cultivate the Grapevine

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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