From the course: Professional Networking for Career Starters

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Maintaining professional relationships over time

Maintaining professional relationships over time

From the course: Professional Networking for Career Starters

Maintaining professional relationships over time

- So at this point, maybe we have engaged in our personal network, or maybe you have met a few people who you now want to engage with again, and here's the big challenge. How do we keep those relationships going? How do we nourish these new relationships and make them lifelong resources? I have an advisor of mine, who I've known for about five years, and she has followed me throughout high school. She helped me with classes. She helped me with schoolwork, internships, jobs. She just made sure that I was on the right track to be college ready. And now that I'm in college, her and I, we have our biweekly check-ins where we're able to talk about school. We're able to talk about work. We're able to talk about my personal life, her personal life, and just really check in on each other and make sure that we're doing okay. And with that, she has become a great benefit to myself because not only is she a member of my team…

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