Anyone who's gone house-hunting knows the real estate mantra: location, location, location. If you're hunting for a job, says Denver employment recruiter Kathleen Conners, that mantra changes to: referral, referral, referral.
"People go online and equate connecting with networking, and they are not the same," Conners says.
"I was working with a chemical engineer who'd been laid off and looking for work for six months. He told me he spent hours looking up jobs and filing applications online, and connecting to people on LinkedIn. I said, 'Did you call any of those Linked In connections?' He said no. That was a big mistake. You have to create a human connection using your voice."
With more than 30 years of experience as a headhunter under her belt, Conners, author of "Network For A Job," knows what she's talking about. She contracts with companies who seek out her experience in winnowing the best candidates for jobs, from engineer positions to management. READ MORE
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