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Networking…. Friends with benefits?

Ilro Lee
5 min readAug 21, 2021

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The science behind how and why it works. Article 1.

Networking is a common practice that many people are skeptical about. We’ve all heard the old adage “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” And while this may be true in some cases, networking will also allow you to grow your network and increase your professional connections. However, there is science behind networking which can help explain how and why it works so well. This blog post will discuss these findings as well as provide you with tactics for maximizing your networking efforts!

You can do PhD in networking?

Believe it or not, I studied networking for my PhD. When I say this to my friends and neighbors, they all say that’s so cool but always have a confused look on their faces. They often come back with “you can do that for PhD?” Then I clarify it that it’s the science behind the networking that I found so interesting and that’s what I researched.

I decided to write about how and why networking works because I see a lot of information out there about networking, yet there is a scant information directly addressing the mechanism of networking. I truly believe that we can be better strategic networkers by having a clear understanding of the mechanism.

What’s networking to you?

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Ilro Lee
Ilro Lee

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