Are you getting ready for your international trip? If you have some free time to prepare for the vacation, please consider these ideas in this article.
- Build a very powerful network.
In order to travel internationally, you probably need to build a reasonably nice nest egg first. Hence, having career success is quite important.
Honestly, without social skills, your technical skills will never work.
Please do not wait until you have to get a new job. You’d better start building professional relationships with individuals in that direction now.
What do you want to achieve in your career? Meet those people that you need to meet as soon as possible. Always dig the well before you’re thirsty. Those individuals might introduce new opportunities to you in future.
What’s more, when you’re connecting with the right people, you can learn more about what will happen after achieving your career goals – maybe you will be able to travel internationally without paying for those trips because your new employer will pay those bills?
According to my experience, all of my key opportunities in my career came from people that I know.
That is to say, people in my network bring opportunities to me. My social skills provide the foundation for the utilization of my technical skills.
A study suggests that the ideal career pivots always come from business connections and career contacts rather than friends and family.
Look, if your friends and family can help you, they must have done so already. As you and your friends/family share the same resources, your friends and family probably can’t give you what you want in this regard.
As a result, you should totally maintain positive relationships with acquaintances and weak links who are more likely to have different resources that you need. Be sure to build a solid social network and keep nurturing this network by staying connected to these people and adding value.
Your network determines your net worth. Always keep in touch with acquaintances and see how you can help them first. You need to offer them something in the first place.
When you help other people proactively, they will also reciprocate due to Law of Reciprocity.
- Improve your technical skills.
As you have some spare time now, you can join online programs and learn some essential skills which could help you to achieve your career goals.
For instance, you may join LinkedIn Learning if you would like to learn skills such as how to build a WordPress website; you can join MasterClass.com if you are keen to learn how to negotiate.
“Because probably no one in your network likes transactions, you should nurture your network properly.”
