Networking Professionals Gifts

"I've seen the best minds of my generation renounce a firm handshake in favor of hugging!"

'Very impressive educational background...now let's discuss WHO you know.!

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"Your MBA and PHD are impressive but what concerns me is your low number of Facebook friends."

"I was going to have my people call his people, but I’m pretty sure his people have Caller I.D."

"Yes, social media's a great way to express your opinions - shame you feel 'ignored and unappreciated by an aloof, faceless boss' - but that's because I haven't a clue who you are or what you do around here!"

"And what do you do to maintain your cardiovascular fitness, Miss Holt?"

"I don't think the guy with the business-card cannon has ever been to an actual networking event,"

'I don't understand. You've wasted the whole interview going on and on about what you know... I think you'd better start telling me who you know.'

Network Extending from Buttonhole

'I recognize the face ... I just can't pin down the name.'

'Remember, Henson; we're not here to hobnob - we're here to schmooze.'

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"Typical company, I'm the only woman!!"

"Thank God! Someone to network with!"

"I'm being heavily recruited by several other companies."

I work for a not for profit business. Mind you, two years ago it was a 'for profit' business.

"Phil's an expert networker. One drink and he's on schmooze-control."

"Sinclair's not all he's cracked up to be. His reputation exceeds him."

"'Mr. Evans,' she said to me with that adorable smile, 'I think you're the nicest boy in the entire old-boy network.'"

"Oh, go on Jeffrey. . . Give him an order!"

The Janitor at the Harvard University Alumni Reunion is one of the Gang.

"I'm Kurt... this brochure will explain the rest."

"Good afternoon, Ted. I'm your online presence."

"Hi, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."

'I didn't have a glass ceiling I had to break through... I had a golf course I had to conquer.'

It was a good chance to get together and talk shop.

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And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

Bob tried networking – and crashed it.

'I saw it as a networking opportunity.'

'We can't find a pond small enough where you'd be a big fish.'

Rod was unimpressed with the party - Sure, he was surrounded by bikini-clad lovelies, there was free champagne and a 20-foot jelly, but much to his chagrin, there was a distinct lack of cheese and pineapple chunks.

'Have your people facebook my people.'

Corp H.Q. In the corporate world, do you it's what you know or who you know? Neither, it's what you know about who.