{"id":5550,"date":"2020-03-12T09:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2025-04-25T15:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T19:11:18","slug":"how-to-network-avoiding-the-pitfalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/03\/12\/how-to-network-avoiding-the-pitfalls\/","title":{"rendered":"How to network &#8211; avoiding the pitfalls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How to network &#8211; avoiding the pitfalls<\/h2>\n<p>You may be avoiding networking because you think it is dark magic requiring you to be a super salesman who annoys on hundreds of contacts, asking total strangers for a job. Who could blame you? The truth is that networking is widely misunderstood.<\/p>\n<p>Presented by Career Coach\u00a0<b>Win Sheffield (Questrom&#8217;79)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-webinars\/\">Upcoming Webinars<\/a> <a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/career\/career-webinars\/\">On-Demand Webinars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn at how to approach contacts and re-imagine networking as something we can do with ease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":5553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,31,28,27,390],"tags":[],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/03\/webinar-how-to-network-800x600.jpg","agg_excerpt":"Learn at how to approach contacts and re-imagine networking as something we can do with ease.","agg_title":"How to network - avoiding the pitfalls","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25676,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/25676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}