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Networking is the #1 way to find great new career opportunities. Getting your feet wet can be easy with a job seekers networking group. They go by many names, but with a common goal of connecting and facilitating.

Andrew and Scott share experiences with you on how and where to find networking groups for career seeking professionals..

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Welcome to job seekers radio. I'm Andrew, and I'm Scott, this is a podcast dedicated to providing meaningful support to find great careers faster. Whether you're working or not we are coming to you from the city of Portland that is the city of Rosas today job seekers radio were talking about finding networking groups for job seekers. Specifically, those groups where job seekers congregate to help each other support each other in finding opportunities and really also providing maybe a little moral support right people think of support group says being something designed only for mental health you can make the claim that this helps the mental health of those who are looking for work, especially when you are looking for work for a long period of time right now, we're in what is considered a tight job market. But that doesn't mean that everybody gets a job right away, especially the higher the position the longer you've been in a career. It may not be quite as quick for you. We want to encourage everyone to look for job seekers groups that will support one another both with networking as well as ideas on how to be resilient now. It's interesting when you're in a job for a long time. You haven't had a need to network and finding these groups is kind of a low stakes way for you to get started in the idea of networking would be, hey, I haven't done this before can I practice with somebody where the stakes are low. These groups are very attractive to me primarily because I like to contribute to them. And I know you do to Scott by me, we do that currently through a group called the breakfast club. And I found that the more that I do it. The more situations. I see the more helpful. I can be right to to people. Right. We pick up the the the nuances that happened in between everyone tells and I heard this quote a while ago every. Nobody tells the same story just different versions of it. And so as we see the different versions were able to synthesize some new ideas and often we are brainstorming in these conversations. But that's the point of a support group year. Not it's not a good idea to walk into one thinking, I have all the answers. Or by the same token. I have none of the answers. We often have the answer somewhere in our heads. We just need open up the right doors or create the right connections in our minds to actually come across. Oh, I haven't tried that. Or I haven't done that in a long time. You you're really restarting the process as you say if you've been in your job for a long time in you haven't been networking one of the things that I learned during one period of unemployment that lasted three years for me that was really tough at the same time. I was told that I had all the answers within me. And so in working through those I actually. I found the way to be resilient while I was unemployed, and that's what these groups are for. And it made you a better person on the other side, really and you came out resilient not only in that situation...