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Aug

How to end a Networking Conversation Politely

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Expert networkers recommend that at networking events (once they start back up again), you only talk to one person for 5-10 minutes before moving on to work the rest of the room. You certainly don’t want to have started a great conversation with someone and then leave them with a bad taste in their mouth because you abruptly or rudely walked away. Nor do you want to get stuck all night talking with one person when you needed to be mingling.

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Aug

12 Great Ways to Start a Networking Conversation

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Have you been to networking events but felt tongue-tied, not knowing what to say? Or worse, have you been avoiding such events for the same reason? I’ve been there…and probably half the people at any networking function are feeling the same way.

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You Know You’re an Engineer If…

You tell jokes that are met with stares unless the audience has had classes in multivariate calculus and particle physics

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Anything by Sean Stephenson is great! He always reminds me that I have no excuses. Here is one example.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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