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I never gave up, and I went to a conference for a completely unrelated topic that led me to meet a person who 6 months later referred me someone who redid my website – and it looks FABULOUS. Check it out: https:\/\/chameleonresumes.com I attended a Society of Human Resources Management learning session to maintain my certification a few years ago. In all honesty, I really did not want to go. But I did. After the session, I didn’t leave. I went up to the presenter and thanked her for the presentation. We got to speaking and, in a nut shell, she introduced me to a recruiter that turned out to be one of my biggest referral sources and business mentor. We are still really good friends to this day. I went to a breakfast meeting with a fellow career coach. He was looking for someone to hire for his team. I met him, and it turns out I was not the right person for what he needed. However, 10 months later, I received a call from a prominent NYC hospital system saying they were recommended to me by this career coach I had met, and they wanted me to do a presentation to their employees on “How to Write Your Resume to Get Promoted” to help them increase internal hiring. I met with a former coworker for lunch, when I still worked as a recruiter, and we had a great laugh over a bite to eat. No Agenda – just fun. Two months later, I called her to put feelers out for a new job. She set me up with her CEO. I met him. Nice meeting – he thinks I am great, but there is nothing open for me at the time we met. Fast forward 8 months later, CEO calls “I have an opening that you would be perfectly suited for. I don’t want to interview anyone else until we speak again. I haven’t posted it yet either.” Um, okay. I met them and I got the job. I started the following month. The job was never posted.I can go on and on…You don’t have to always have a result from a meeting.You can just go to meet people and see what happens.The possibilities are in the connection.I think we get too caught up in checking off to-do lists and result-i-fying everything.Well, here is a result-driven goal for you:Just go talk to 10 people this week, because “you never know”.That’s it… No result from the chat needed. The result is the chat."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"The Power of ‘You Never Know’ Networking","item":"https:\/\/chameleonresumes.com\/power-never-know-networking#breadcrumbitem"}]}]