Saturday, September 8, 2018

This is What is Drilled Into You at Harvard



Gabrielle T. Langkilde ‘21 writes in The Crimson:
At Harvard, the most important thing that we are taught is how to expand our social networks for personal gain. The importance of networking is drilled into us through different academic advising sessions and even through conversations with upperclassmen, who swear it is the only way to move up the ladder in life. On top of this, the Office of Career Services has a whole webpage dedicated to advising students on how to “make connections,” defining networking as “nothing more than talking with people who can provide you with information, advice, resources, and possible contacts related to your fields of interest.” 

-RW 

Also see: Entrepreneurship, Talent and Networking 

7 comments:

  1. ...thus setting the poor saps for thw lifetime of loneliness and no actual social connections. When you see people as means to your ends nobody likes you. Welcome depression, alcoholism, Xanax.

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  2. Not what you know, but who you know. That has made the business world go around and around for centuries.

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    1. Exactly! Ever since business was invented. Add a little competence and success is likely to come.

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  3. I prefer Steve Martin's advice "Be so good they can't ignore you."

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  4. That's how the world works as I have learned the hard way. How much money you make an employer is practically meaningless without friends in the right places.

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    1. Amen to this statement. Amen. I wish I had known this many years ago.

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    2. Good reason to be your own employer. Or have a strict policy of not expecting any compensation other than in your employment contract - and feel no more loyalty to your employer than they feel towards you. Basically, zero.

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