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Check Your Networking Skills
by Paul Stevens
Founder / Director, The Centre for Worklife Counselling

Networking is an essential personal career management skill. Complete the following audit to assess your knack for networking and test whether you are appropriately using a mentor as a sounding board for your career plans or difficulties. If your score suggest you need help in this area, address your questions to The Personal Career Management Coach.

Complete the following questionnaire to check your understanding of using NETWORKING and a MENTOR as important career management skills.

Circle the number you consider applies to you:
 
1=strongly agree; 2=agree; 3=maybe, not certain; 4=disagree; 5=strongly disagree

 

(1) Networking means talking only to important people who have jobs. 1 2 3 4 5
(2) I maintain a list of useful contacts and acquaintances to help me in readiness for when I need to network for information. 1 2 3 4 5
(3) People who don't have what it takes for their positions are more inclined to avoid networking. 1 2 3 4 5
(4) Career pathfinding is different to networking. 1 2 3 4 5
(5) I participate in the activities of my professional association. 1 2 3 4 5
(6) I send Christmas cards to my business contacts. 1 2 3 4 5
(7) A mentor must not be the same sex as the seeker of assistance. 1 2 3 4 5
(8) Both men and women are increasingly finding it helpful to use mentors in their careers. 1 2 3 4 5
(9) The age of the mentor does not matter. 1 2 3 4 5
(10) It is ethical to change mentors if you believe there are no longer benefits. 1 2 3 4 5
(11) It is okay to have a mentor who works for the same employer. 1 2 3 4 5
(12) Usually the higher the mentor's position the more the mentor can do for you. 1 2 3 4 5
(13) The relationship between a male mentor and a woman can be more complex than a woman to woman relationship. 1 2 3 4 5
(14) A counsellor can also serve as a mentor. 1 2 3 4 5
(15) When you have a tough problem to resolve you should involve your mentor. 1 2 3 4 5
(16) Your mentor does not have to have the same personality traits as yourself. 1 2 3 4 5
(17) The best mentor has a wide range of current skills to pass on. 1 2 3 4 5
(18) A mentor provides more than friendship. 1 2 3 4 5
(19) The primary purpose of a mentor is to be a transitional figure in your personal development. 1 2 3 4 5

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