Building your social capital helps you get more financial capital (money, jobs, clients, projects, partnerships). This is now more important that it has been in years. If you happen to need convincing, read on to get the latest report on our economic backdrop.
This is from Bloomberg a couple hours ago: Job Losses in U.S. Spreading to Workers With College Degrees.
“This particular recession is hitting workers with more levels of schooling harder than past recessions have hit them,” said Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington research group typically aligned with the labor movement. “It’s just a deeper recession, it’s more widespread, its tentacles are reaching everywhere.”
As they say in this Associate Press video, we can expect the next few months to be about this bad, improving in the second half of the year.
So why am I posting this? Because this is the backdrop to a very actionable choice that you have: build your social capital to help you get ahead. You’ll get more financial capital; more interviews, more networking success, more clients, more projects.
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6. February 2009 by Craig Peters
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