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Whereas Horan accepts that she isn’t good at “networking?? and “self-promotion”—skills essential to landing a job—Peter more pointedly blames the “petty” and “competitive” student body whose talents make him less marketable. He feels that many of his supposed friends have buttressed their self-esteem through his failure...
...recent New York Times article pointed to the rising popularity of swinging—or what the promoters like to call “erotic networking??—among a markedly younger crowd in Manhattan. The movement, driven largely by younger women, promotes parties where sex is treated like a sport and girls as young as 18 and 19 take on multiple partners in one night. The women involved claim to feel sexually “empowered” through the activity. A recent college graduate who was interviewed for the article had no qualms about...
...sees networking as a skill so essential, in fact, that at the Women’s Leadership Conference, which the WLP holds annually, a workshop taught young women essential networking skills like hand-shaking, name-dropping, and interest-advancing. “Networking??it’s difficult if you haven’t done it before,” says Hyde. “You’re essentially going up to someone and saying, ‘What can you do for me?’ How do you walk up to someone, shake their hand...
Seeing firsthand exactly what the prospect of “networking?? entailed, I decided that I didn’t even want to play the game. Thus, as everyone around me threw himself or herself into the activity with gusto, exchanging the obligatory “where are you from?” as they eyed the chit-producing orb in their quarry’s hands, I high-stepped it past the melting ice-cream and beelined for the door...