The Top 10 Secrets to Managing Your Career for Optimum Satisfaction - #7

7. Nurture your network.
Have lunch with someone you know professionally at least once a month. Keep your name on the “radar screen” so that you can immediately tap that network if you are laid off or wish to change jobs – and can return the favor for them! 25% of us will change jobs each year, so it’s just a question of time when your turn is up!

Marcia Bench, MCCC, CBC, CMP; author of 15 books including the new Career Coaching: An Insider’s Guide, Founder/Director of Career Coach Institute, can be reached at coach@careercoachinstitute.com, or visited on the web at www.careercoachinstitute.com. Marcia is a Master Certified Career Coach with 20 years' experience in career development. Her passion is to help people discover and operationalize their life purpose through in their work.

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