Building a network is essential to finding a career in today’s competitive online job market. Today, the Mac’s List team explores how to build your network strategically with guest expert Sara Holtz. Find out how to develop a strategy for expanding your network and learn why the casual approach of asking your colleague for a chat over coffee may not be the best move.

About Our Guest: Sara Holtz

Sara Holtz is passionate about helping women succeed in the workplace. Sara launched the Advice to My Younger Me podcast to serve as a "virtual mentor" to help younger women navigate a sometimes confusing workplace. In each episode, Sara and her guest, another successful women who has "been there, learned this," provide clear, practical career advice.

Sara comes to this podcast after a very accomplished career as a business lawyer, senior executive at Fortune 500 companies and as a nationally-recognized expert helping women lawyers achieve career success. She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.

Resources in this Episode:

• New tool: Get the book, “The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success” (https://amzn.to/2JXoPbO) by Nicholas Lore.
• Listener question: This week’s question comes from Jenna Paulson, a resident of Portland, Oregon. Jenna asks if hiring managers will knock her for being unemployed, despite it not being her fault. Her company’s unexpected downsizing is the reason for her unemployment.
• More from our guest:
• • Visit Sara’s website to check out her podcast, Advice to My Younger Me: http://tomyyounger.me/

Connect with Sara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-holtz-688909/

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