52 Power Networking Tips: How to Network Like a Pro

If you are a professional, in business for yourself or someone else, or looking for employment, you need to network to gain opportunities. 

We aren’t born with networking skills, even though it looks like some of us are. Those skills had to be developed by trial and error.

The 52 Power Networking Tips: How to Network Like a Pro collection is derived from the book Power Networking For Shy People: How To Network Like a Pro that provides powerful strategies and tactics to enhance your networking efforts.

This list is for those of you who like down and dirty pointers or solutions. 

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Rae is the author of "PROtect Yourself! Empowering Tips & Techniques for Personal Safety: A Practical Violence Prevention Manual for Healthcare Workers" available as a downloadable e-book at https://books2read.com/protectyourself 

Once upon a time it was safe to go to work. Maybe that was just a fairy tale because the times have certainly changed. Increased violence has become part of our everyday life be it at home or at work. We read about it daily in the newspaper and are bombarded with violent stories from the television and radio.

PROtect Yourself! provides an integrative, non violent approach to dealing with physical aggression and verbal threat. Its method of information delivery is designed to help you develop greater awareness and vigilance, hone observational and judgment skills and to learn communication techniques to defuse potentially volatile situations.

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The Savvy Emcee: How to Be a Dynamic Master of Ceremonies by Rae A. Stonehouse

In this practical, easy to use book, Rae A. Stonehouse a.k.a. Mr. Emcee puts the "Master" in Master of Ceremonies. He shares tips & techniques he has learned over the years in becoming a dynamic Master of Ceremonies.

By reading this book you will learn:

* How to take charge of any event.

* How to organize yourself so everyone will know you are in charge!

* How to think logistically, from several different perspectives.

* How to create agendas that work.

* Stage management techniques.

* How to present awards & give recognition.

* How to keep the featured speaker organized.

* About different emceeing opportunities.

* How to get paid for what you do.

As in Rae's other books, he offers a systematic, easy to read approach that provides practical solutions to specific problems.

In The Savvy Emcee: How to be a Dynamic Master of Ceremonies, Rae A. Stonehouse, shares practical advice to help you become a Dynamic Master of Ceremonies, that people will want to pay for your services!

Available on-line at https://books2read.com/savvyemcee

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 The Power of Promotion! On-line Marketing For Toastmasters Club Growth by Rae A. Stonehouse

For many Toastmasters Clubs, one of the biggest challenges in running a successful and productive club is maintaining a constant flow of visitors to attend and join you and your fellow Toastmasters as a member. Members come and members go. Life happens! Your Club membership can quickly change from a healthy charter-strength club to one in danger of losing its Charter.

Veteran Toastmaster of over two decades, Rae Stonehouse DTM (Distinguished Toastmaster), PDG (Past District Governor, District 21)has witnessed the cycle several times with his own club Kelowna Flying Solo Toastmasters.

Toastmasters are social!

Toastmasters are known to be quite social, after-all we are striving to hone our communication skills. Then along comes social media and on-line tools that can increase not only our reach but our productivity.

Social media is here to stay!

Social media is here to stay, at least until the next “big thing” comes along. Keeping up with what’s new, what’s hot and what’s not could easily turn into a full-time job. And indeed it has for many people as they have created a new career as Social Media Managers.

The Power of Promotion! On-line Marketing For Toastmasters Club Growth by Rae Stonehouse flattens the learning curve for anyone who wants to maximize their time spent on-line, without turning it into a full-time job.

Rae believes that Toastmasters clubs should be run like businesses and social media platforms provide promotional and marketing opportunities that can help spread the word about one of the world’s best kept secrets... Toastmasters.

In this easy-to-read, how-to manual, Rae shares his experience with using social media to draw attention to his Toastmasters club and to convert visitors to social media properties to actually visit his club and to join. Sometimes it has worked … sometimes not!

Available as a downloadable e-book at https://books2read.com/powerofpromotion .

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You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work by Rae A. Stonehouse

Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially, if you don’t know how to do it properly. The ‘old ways’ don’t work anymore.

Finding rewarding work ... is work!

You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, puts you to work in learning how to use ‘best practices’ to land your ‘dream’ job.

This book provides strategic techniques to maximize your job searching effectiveness. Strategies include:

• Understanding the psychology of job-searching
• Envisioning your success
• Crafting & fine-tuning your resume
• Creating your network web of contacts
• Leveraging your references
• How to excel at interview questions
  ... and much more!

Nobody can make a promise that if you follow their program, you will be guaranteed the results you are looking for and we won’t either.

However, we’re confident that if you follow the strategies outlined in this book, you will be successful in landing a job.

From our experience, one of the biggest problems that job seekers often face is that they feel that they are coming from an inferior position and they don’t have a lot of personal power.

The belief being that the Employer has the superior position and has all the power.

Yes, they have the job and they have the power to give you the job ... or not.

What you may not realize is that many Hiring Managers are under similar pressures as you, the job seeker.

They have the pressure of finding the right candidate for the vacancy they need to fill.

They are accountable to their superiors should the person they hire not work out.

Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate.

Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

Available as a downloadable e-book or paperback.

Also available as an on-line, self-paced, self-directed e-course. 

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You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work by Rae A. Stonehouse

Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially… if you don't know how to do it properly. The 'old ways' don't work anymore. Finding rewarding work... is work!

Your resume got you the interview. Now what?

You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work, focuses on the job interviewing process:

• how to prepare for your job interview
• how to anticipate and answer questions in a manner that lead towards your successful landing of a job.

This book offers strategic tactics to maximize your job interviewing effectiveness.

The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about job interviewing.

You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation - Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use ‘best practices’ to land your ‘dream’ job.

If you are a sports fan, you will recognize that any sport has a set of rules and varying degrees of competition. Searching for a job, your job, is a competitive situation. It could come down to two or more possible candidates, hopefully you, being one of them, having very similar qualifications.

Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

Available as a downloadable e-book or paperback.

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You're Hired! Resume Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work by Rae A. Stonehouse

It is often said that “resumes are your ticket to job searching success.” You're Hired! Resume Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work, focusses on resume writing tactics to maximize your job searching effectiveness.

The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about resume writing.

You won’t win a lottery if you don’t have a ticket and you are unlikely to be invited for a job interview if you don’t have a dynamic, effective resume that features you as a potential solution to a problem. Your resume is your ticket that leads to being invited for an interview where you can expand upon your value.

You're Hired! Resume Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use 'best practices' to create customized resumes that increase your chances of winning an interview.

Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

Available as a downloadable e-book or paperback.

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You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network - Job Search Strategies That Work by Rae A. Stonehouse

Many job search industry professionals say that networking is the single most effective strategy for landing your next job. You may think you don’t know anyone who can help you with your job search. But you know more people than you think, and they are willing to help you. However, you need to reach out and connect with them first.

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network – Job Search Strategies That Work, focusses on tactics to build and leverage your networking effectiveness.

The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about professional networking.

“It’s not who you know… it’s who knows you know…”

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network - Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use 'best practices' to create a professional network that will increase your likelihood of landing your job.

Now it’s time to work at letting people know ‘what’ you know and get to know ‘who’ they know. Your next connection may be looking for a candidate to fill an open position. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

Available as a downloadable e-book or paperback.

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You're Hired! Power Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work by Rae A. Stonehouse

Looking for work or changing careers?

While looking for a new job and going through hiring interviews can be exciting for some people, for many of us it can be a stressful experience.

Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially… if you don't know how to do it properly. The 'old ways' don't work anymore. Finding rewarding work... is work!

Looking for work and going through job interviews isn't something we do every day. It is difficult to become skilled at an activity if you don't practice regularly. 

You're Hired! Power Tactics is a compilation of the contents of the following books in the You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work series:

• You're Hired! Resume Tactics
• You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network
• You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation

It is often said that "resumes are your ticket to job searching success." Are your resumes ready to land you that ever-elusive job interview?

Yes, you read that right. Resumes… plural. The days of one-size-fits-all resumes are long gone.

Your resume needs to be a living, breathing document that you customize for each job opportunity.

You won't win a lottery if you don't have a ticket and you are unlikely to be invited for a job interview if you don't have a dynamic, effective resume that features you as the solution to a problem. Your resume is your ticket that leads to being invited for an interview where you can expand upon your value.

You're Hired! Resume Tactics - Job Search Strategies That Work, offers resume writing tactics to maximize your job searching effectiveness and get you invited for an interview.

Many job search industry professionals say that networking is the single most effective strategy for landing your next job. How's your networking working?

You may think you don't know anyone who can help you with your job search. But you know more people than you think, and they are willing to help you. However, you need to reach out and connect with them first.

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network – Job Search Strategies That Work, offers tactics to help you reach out to build and leverage your personal and professional network.

"It's not who you know… it's who knows you know…"

You're Hired! Leveraging Your Network -- Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use 'best practices' to create a professional network that will increase your success in landing your job.

Is the thought of an upcoming job interview keeping you awake at night?

While looking for a new job and going through hiring interviews can be exciting for some people, for many of us it can be a stressful experience. 

Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially… if you don't know how to do it properly. The 'old ways' don't work anymore. Finding rewarding work... is work!

Your resume got you the interview. Now what?

You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation -- Job Search Strategies That Work, systematically builds your skills to excel at interview questions and help you sleep at night.

Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!

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You're Hired! Job Searching Success Tips List by Rae A. Stonehouse

Looking for work? Having difficulty in landing your dream job… or any job? Don't know how to do it?

The Job Searching Success Tips List is derived from the You're Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work program and provides powerful strategies and tactics to land your next job.

Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially, if you don't know how to do it properly. The 'old ways' of finding a job often don't work anymore. 

Finding rewarding work... is work!

For those of you who like quick and to the point solutions to problems, Author Rae A. Stonehouse offers 55 helpful tips and sage advice on job searching and landing your job.

Any one of the tips may be the one that levels the playing field between you and the employer and help you become the only choice. The right choice!

Available at books2read.com/jobsearchsuccesstips

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Published Articles:

On Ending the Stigma of Mental Health as featured in the June 2018 issue of Mu Magazine

Networking As A Job Search Strategy as featured in the April 2018 issue of Mu Magazine

Connecting in the Okanagan as featured in the December 2016 issue of Mu Magazine

Mastering the introduction as featured on Castanet, October 22, 2016

Master of the Show as featured on Castanet, October 29, 2016