It is becoming more difficult to find a job in today’s economy. Using connections is an excellent inside track and social media sites can broaden that pool of resources. The trick is using them to your advantage. This is what I’ve discovered, there is a world of networking out there, but there is right in front of me. It’s fun to converse with friends and catch up with old high school friends online, but I can also meet new people, people in my field and who I otherwise could not have met. Oh how the internet makes a small world, even smaller.

There are bloggers and tweeters dedicated to posting the latest internship and position available from New York to Los Angeles, that have been instrumental in my search for an internship. I feel like I have an edge, and everyday new people befriend me online, one of them will have just the tip I’m looking for.

So the saying goes, “it’s not what you know it’s who you know”, well I want to know everyone. So in an effort to take my own advise, below you will find my new goals.

My Goals This Week

• Find 10 new connections.
• Connect with the new connections (its not enough just to have them saved as friends).
• Send my new friends a message.

Sounds easy enough, well then you should join me, as I improve my networking skill.