Three Places to Actually Avoid Networking

handshake2We’re huge fans of networking. Huge! Waiting for your cup of tea at Starbucks or for the bus to arrive, it’s all good.

Or is it?

Inspired by this piece by U.S. News & World Report, there are a few places where networking would be completely out of line.

1. Tragedies. Seriously, if you started to work the room, that would come off as “callous, calculating and uncaring.” Moments such as these are all about helping survivors and leveraging the situation as an opportunistic moment to further your own career is simply not cool.

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