In this e-book, career expert, Miriam Salpeter, illustrates the full potential of social networking. Learn how to create and promote an online brand, achieve your career goals, and make yourself indispensable in your field. The book includes expert advice from more than 100 professionals and even gives tips for maintaining a blog.

"Build your brand and maximize your job success through social networking. This eBook unlocks the secrets of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and more--helping you become the expert." --

Through two studies, this research is some of the first to-date to test how the use of social networking websites affects worker well-being and career success. In a period of less than a decade, online social media has quickly redefined many core aspects of human relationships. In 2012, the website, Facebook, reported that one in eight people worldwide used the site weekly. Given such prevalence, this research has far reaching implications for U.S. workers and organizations. The first study (N = 238) used structural equation modeling to examine the effect of site use with coworkers on well-being through increases in the job resource, coworker support, and the potential reduction of burnout, effort reduction, and turnover intentions. Partial support for the first study’s hypotheses was detected, specifically concerning the negative consequences of stress-focused online coworker interactions. Study 2 (N = 298), a social capital approach, compared the amount of career resources between those who use online social media and those who do not. The results widely supported the hypotheses with the social media users reporting more contacts in other functions and higher levels, potential and acted-on career endorsement relationships, and weak tie work-related relationships. These results remained significant when controlling for the potentially biasing effects of age and personality. Additional research is needed to provide individuals with valid and reliable direction for how online social media may benefit their careers and well-being.

Networking for Career Success shows professionals how to enhance their careers through effective networking. It covers everything from basics of networking to targeted techniques for making a career change, funding a new business venture, adding clients, and more.

This book helps job seekers manage their day-to-day search and professional networking in-person and online. Job seekers who need this book know they should reach out to business contacts and connect on social media, but don't know how. Scripts and templates teach what to say when contacting people during job searches and showcase various approaches, including details about how to connect in person and via phone, email, and social media sites.

This book is a practical, step-by-step guide for creating, cultivating, and capitalizing on networking relationships and opportunities. Updated from its first edition, Make Your Contacts Count now includes expanded advice on building social capital at work and in job hunting, as well as new case studies, examples, checklists, and questionnaires. You will discover how to: draft a networking plan cultivate current contacts make the most of memberships effectively exchange business cards avoid the top ten networking turn-offs share anecdotes that convey character and competence transform your career with a networking makeover Job-seekers, career-changers, entrepreneurs, and others will find all the networking help they need to supercharge their careers and boost their bottom lines. Packed with valuable tools, Make Your Contacts Count offers a field-tested "Hello to Goodbye" system that takes you from entering a room, to making conversations flow, to following up.

CONFIDENT NETWORKING FOR CAREER SUCCESS by bestselling author Gael Lindenfield and her husband Stuart is a practical and accessible self-help book everyone will benefit from. Good networking is vital in today's world of work. This book will enable you to build your confidence and develop the essential personal and psychological qualities and skills you need in order to build contacts, enjoy beneficial relationships, and develop a successful and exciting career. Packed with information, advice and anecdotes, including quick-fix solutions for common problems and guidelines for extroverts and introverts, CONFIDENT NETWORKING FOR CAREER SUCCESS will help you to overcome shyness, anxiety and low self-esteem and develop your communication, emotional management, organizational, relationship and electronic skills so that you can easily generate new contacts and enjoy the working life you want.