Building Your Professional Network

This guide offers tips and additional resources for building your professional network.

Articles

How To Build A Powerful Professional Network Early In Your Career
(Forbes, 2019)
7 Tips for Building Your Professional Network
(Northeastern University, Graduate Program blog, 2017)
How To Use LinkedIn
(NYTimes, 2020)
How To Build A Powerful Professional Network
(Forbes, 2010)
How to Build Your Network
(Harvard Business Review, 2005)
Managing your professional reputation on social media
(The Guardian, 2013)
How We Reached This Point, Part 2
(The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2013)
How to Build Your Network
(Science)
To Be or Not to Be Linked: Online Social Networks and Job Search by Unemployed Workforce
(Management Science, 2018)

Books

Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don't Find) Work Today / Ilana Gershon
- Available online: Ebook Central
A foot in the door : networking your way into the hidden job market / Katharine Hansen
Carr Library, Career Collection HF5382.7.H354 2000
more...less...
Berkeley, Calif. : Ten Speed Press, c2000
How to find a job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ / Brad and Debra Schepp
Robeson Library, Stacks HF5382.7.S34 2012
more...less...
New York : McGraw-Hill, 2012
Knock 'em dead social networking : for job search and professional success / Martin Yate
Carr Library, Career Collection HF5382.7.Y37 2014
more...less...
Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, 2014
Make your contacts count : networking know-how for business and career success (2nd ed.) / Anne Baber, Lynne Waymon
- Available Online: Ebook Central
- Carr Library, Career Collection HF5381.B143 2007
more...less...
New York : AMACOM, c2007
Monster careers : networking : make the connections that make your career / by Jeff Taylor with Doug Hardy
Carr Library, Career Collection HD69.S8T39 2006
more...less...
New York : Penguin Books, 2006
Networking for nerds : find, access and land hidden game-changing career opportunities everywhere / Alaina G. Levine
Available online: Ebook Central
more...less...
Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley Blackwell, 2015
Networking for veterans : a guidebook for a successful military transition into the civilian workforce / by Michael Abrams
Robeson Library, Stacks UB357.A27 2013
more...less...
Boston, MA : Pearson Learning Solutions, c2013
The networking survival guide : get the success you want by tapping into the people you know / by Diane Darling
Carr Library, Career Collection HF5381.D26 2003
more...less...
New York : McGraw-Hill, 2003
Never apply for a job again! : break the rules, cut the line, beat the rest / Darrell W. Gurney
Available online: Ebook Central
more...less...
Pompton Plains, New Jersey : Career Press, 2012
The new rules of networking the essential rules and secrets to modern networking / Rob Yeung,
Available online: Ebook Central
more...less...
Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Business, 2012
The panic free job search : unleash the power of the Web and social networking to get hired / Paul Hill
Available online: Ebook Central
more...less...
Pompton Plains, New Jersey : Career Press, 2012
Power networking : using the contacts you don't even know you have to succeed in the job you want / Marc Kramer
Carr Library, Career Collection HF5382.7.K68 199
more...less...
Lincolnwood, Ill., U.S.A. : VGM Career Horizons, c1998
Pull : networking and success since Benjamin Franklin / Pamela Walker Laird
- Available online: Ebook Central
- Carr Library, Stacks HD69.S8L35 2006
- Robeson Library, Stacks HD69.S8L35 2006
more...less...
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2006
Social networking for career success (2nd ed.) / Miriam Salpeter
Robeson Library, Stacks HD69.S8S253 2013
more...less...
New York : LearningExpress, 2013
Stiletto network : inside the women's power circles that are changing the face of business / Pamela Ryckman
- Available online: Ebook Central (http://bit.ly/2J2N6xu)
- Dana Library, Stacks HD6053.R93 2013
more...less...
New York : AMACOM, American Management Association, 2013
Successful networking : how to build new networks for career and company progression / Frances Kay
Carr Library, Career Collection HF5381.K39 2010
more...less...
London ; Philadelphia, PA : Kogan Page, c2010
SuperNetworking : reach the right people, build your career network, and land your dream job-- now! / Michael Salmon
Carr Library, Career Collection HD69.S8S25 2004
more...less...
Franklin Lakes, NJ : Career Press, 2004
Vault guide to schmoozing / Marcy Lerner [et al.]
Carr Library, Career Collection HD69.S8V385 2001
more...less...
New York : Vault.com, c2001
Work the pond : use the power of positive networking to leap forward in work and life / Darcy Rezac, with Judy Thompson and Gayle Hallgren, forward by Tom Donohue
Dana Library, Stacks HD69.S8R49 2005
more...less...
New York : Prentice Hall Press, c2005

Book Delivery

Interested in a book located on another Rutgers campus? It is free for you to request a Book Delivery - that is, to ask the Libraries to send the book to your home library. For more information, click on the link below:

To Request a Book