"Networking" was the biggest buzz word of the 90's. To get a job or grow a business - all you had to do was network. Bill Gates' initial deal with IBM, in which they bought and added the MS DOS operating system to all their PC's, was a result of networking . Bill's mother worked on a Board of Directors with IBM's president, and that contact started Microsoft's incredible rise to the top. Likewise, savvy job hunters knew that developing contacts lead to discovering many great jobs that were never advertised. And with 85% of all jobs not appearing in the want ads, networking was a great job hunting tool. But does it still work today? Before I answer that question, let's look at what has happened.

Author:  Robin Ryan

Duration: 4:04

Published: 2008-03-03

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