When Anne Lupkoski, CAP-OM-TA, got her first office job after college, she described herself in a way much like a sailboat in rough seas—she didn’t feel anchored or useful in her role. Instead, she was rudderless and searching for answers. She was
alone and disenchanted.
A lucky few were blessed with mentors and patient supervisors who guided us in our journey, but most of us had to feel our way along in the dark, tripping over misplaced office supplies and bumping into open file drawers until we could finally stumble across the light switch and figure out how best to manage our careers.
“Most jobs are still found because someone knows someone. However, remember when you’re networking online, the whole idea is to move the online to the personal, not just to be collecting a database of people, but to be building relationships, and out of relationships come opportunities, and from opportunities come jobs,”
IAAP Edge 