Networking
Selected Resources from the UNI Career Services Library
- A Foot in the Door: Networking your Way into the Hidden Job Market
- It's Who you Know: Career Strategies for Making Effective Personal Contacts
- Job Search Networking
- Networking for Everyone: Connecting With People for Career and Job Success
- Vault Guide to Schmoozing [electronic resource]
- Networking Made Easy [electronic resource]
For more resources available from the UNI libraries ( Career Services Library, Rod Library, etc.) you can search their online catalog using subjects or keywords such as networks and career development or job hunting.
Selected Web Sites
(Links to non-UNI Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement)- The Riley Guide: Networking and your Job Search
- The Riley Guide: Networking Advice
- The Art of Career and Job-Search Networking
- Making Connections
- Successful Job Search Networking
- Job / Career / Social Networking
- Chronicle Careers: Resources and Tools for Academics
- Job Hunting for Academic Opportunities
- Networking Strategies for Shy Professionals
- Networking Your Way to a New Job
- A Good Network Is A Circle of Friends
- How to Initiate "Insider Contacts
Networking Online
Usernet newsgroups, message boards, and mailing lists are excellent Internet resources for making contacts. Many of them are used for posting announcements, discuss recent developments in their industry or their profession, discuss issues on job hunting techniques, find job listings and career information, and ask questions from each other.
Message Boards (also called forums or online communities) are discussion groups on the Web. Usernet Newsgroups are a world-wide network of discussion groups using an area of the internet separate from the World Wide Web. A couple of ways to access them is by using for browser Internet Explorer (Tools ® Mail ®News) or through Google groups Mailing Lists are discussion groups that communicate through email. Mailing lists are useful for people looking for jobs especially in institutions of higher education. The following directories can help you find lists relevant to your subject. Blogs are additional tools to networking. Find blogs and bloggers in a particular field that interest you.
Professional Associations and Organizations
By joining professional associations in your discipline you can stay on top of current trends and new developments in your field. Many of these organizations have ways for you to get involved while you are still in school- for instance, attending their conferences, reading their newsletters, and allowing you to present your research. Plus, joining these organizations will likely help you in your job search by either posting openings on their website, holding job placements at the conferences or sending out openings through online list serves.
- University of Northern Iowa Alumni Association – A great way to connect with UNI alumni!
- Encyclopedia of Associations (UNI Rod Library - Reference) - A comprehensive list of national and international organizations described briefly, with names, addresses, and telephone numbers.
- Associations on the Net –Identify organizations in your field and explore groups you might want to join.
- ASAE Gateway to Associations Directory – Maintained by the American Society of Association Executives, the search results provide a list of associations that meet your selection criteria.
Plan and Explore 
