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Hello, and welcome to EduKatedSTEM.

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I am Kate, the founder of EduKatedSTEM,

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and today we're going to be talking

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about networking, So sometimes you

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might be qualified for the role. You might

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apply for the role, but you don't even

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get interviewed. And maybe if you had

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utilized your network or had built a network,

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you would have a completely different

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outcome. So, this is one of the reasons

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why I'm going to encourage you to develop,

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build a network, and then nurture it so

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that when you are ready to move on,

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you can work with your network. Let

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them know that you are looking for

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another opportunity, And maybe you

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can utilize them to get informational

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interviews or other things. But the first

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thing is, you need to network. Now, when

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I mentioned that word did a chill, go

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down your spine? I've had a lot of

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conversations with individuals who

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think networking has kind of a horrible

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connotation. It's slimy. It is kind of

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using people you know to get your

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own way or for your own benefit.

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But it goes both ways, right? So,

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they're in your network. You could

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potentially help them. They might

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be looking for that as well. And

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you're going to be building a network

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of friends and colleagues. So, these

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are going to be people that you want

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to be connected with. You're not

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going to be, hopefully meeting someone

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that you don't want to be talking

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to in the future, because that is going

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to be uncomfortable for you. So, let's

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talk about maybe networking at a

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conference because, as a scientist,

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this is what you're going to be doing.

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Hopefully you're going to go to a

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conference you're going to listen

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to presentations. You're going to

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learn new information. You might

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present a poster, you might present

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an oral presentation. And then

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hopefully you're going to talk with

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your peers, maybe meeting new

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people. Maybe figuring out who

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you might want to be working for

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or with in the future. So, networking

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isn't a bad thing, But I'm going to

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encourage you to go in with plan.

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And I've seen a number of networking

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talks. At ABRCMS I saw a talk

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specifically for networking for introverts,

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which was very, very good, but I

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thought a lot of the information

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was also quite pertinent to people

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who were not introverts. So I'm an

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introvert. I find the concept of going

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to conferences and going to networking

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events. It's challenging. It really is.

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But I force myself to do it because

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you know, the more you do it, the

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easier it becomes. And I take advice

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from my friend Mary Mitchell and

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she always said, when you go, just

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have a goal in mind. So, if your goal

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is to meet a certain person, then

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that is what you try and do. If it's

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to meet a certain number of people,

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then you know three to five individuals

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in and to have a good conversation

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with them, then that is what you do.

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Once you have met your your goal,

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your requirement, it's then up to you

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if you then choose to leave the

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networking event. But hopefully

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by that point, you will feel comfortable.

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You've made some friends. You

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might actually want to stay. When

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you're going to a conference,

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especially nowadays, a lot of the

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time you will get information on a

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conference app. so ABRCMS

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definitely does that. The National

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Postdoc Association does that.

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And they actually use the same app.

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I might completely kill the pronunciation

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Whova, I'm not sure but it's a good

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little app. It has a list of all of the

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attendees. It has the presentations,

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where they are, what the talks are.

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You can go on and you can highlight.

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Yes, I want to go to these presentations,

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and then you have an itinerary,

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and then the app can say, you know,

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you've got to talk in 10 minutes in this

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place, so it's very, very helpful. But

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you can utilize the app to kind of

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come up with a plan for what you

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want to do for networking. So, maybe

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there is someone in your field that

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you are absolutely dying to meet.

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Are they on the list of attendees?

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If they are, are they speaking? If

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they're speaking you absolutely

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know where they're going to be

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at one point of time. So you could

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try and go and speak to them after

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they have finished. Or maybe you

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just know that they're going to be

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there so, maybe you try and have

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a conversation in a more relaxed

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setting. So, maybe over a coffee,

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or you see them at a lunch table,

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and you ask if you can join them.

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Whatever it is, if there are certain

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people that you want to meet,

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then let's try and make that happen.

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Why do you want to meet them?

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Maybe you want to potentially work

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with them in the future. You just

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want to have a chat about an

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experiment or a paper that they've done.

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Whatever it is. So let's focus on

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what we want to get out of that.

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And maybe there are other people

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there who would be helpful, someone

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who works at an institution that

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you're interested in working at, but

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not necessarily that individual.

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You can have a conversation with

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them and find out is it a great place

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to work? Maybe you'll have a

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chat to them and go. Oh, I don't

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want to do that. I don't want to move

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on. So look at the conference

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attendees and see who you might

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be interested in working for or talking

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to. And the next thing is be prepared.

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So, as a graduate student, you might

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not have the opportunity to have

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graduate sorry, to have business cards.

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But maybe your graduate school

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will purchase them for you. We used

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to make them for our graduate students.

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So that was a possibility. If not

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Vistaprint or something very similar,

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will make you cards for actually quite

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cheap. So, I designed my business

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card on Vistaprint. I think I got a

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thousand of them for $25 or

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something. It's really not that

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expensive, and you can, you know,

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put your name, an email address,

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I don't put my phone number

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because I don't want people

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phoning me at random times.

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And if you've got a website, then

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put that information on there.

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You could always, if you get a

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obviously a smaller number of

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them, you could say where you

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currently are, that you're a graduate

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student or a postdoc, you can

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always personalize it even more

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and say, you know, this is your field.

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I'm looking for jobs or whatever it is.

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You can pop it in there. So even

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if your institution won't give you

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a business card, then maybe you

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can kind of get some made. You

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might want to take a few copies

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of your CV or resume with you.

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You know if you have a particular

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person that you want to meet

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and you want to share your work

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with them, you could always print

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a copy of a paper or an abstract

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or something and attempt to give

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it to them. I will say that people

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have tried to give me CV's, resumes,

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papers in the past, and I'm gonna

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be honest. You get home, and

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you don't really do much with

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them. Business cards, yes,

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know, I have a big stack of them.

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Then it's really funny because

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somebody will email and be like,

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Kate I met you at this conference.

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We spoke, and if I can't remember

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them, then I'll go through my

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stack of business cards. I'm like,

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did I meet you? Because if I know

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that I've met you, then you know

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my response is probably gonna

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be more helpful. Or like, if you see

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me speak and you say, Kate, I saw

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your seminar on this, rather than

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Kate, I want this from you. Then

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obviously, I'm going to be more

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helpful to the person who you

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know opens up with I saw you

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at this thing and I would like your

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advice. So I don't know about

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giving things other than a business

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card. But you want their business card. If they can give you a business card that's really helpful, because then you can find them on LinkedIn. You can send them an email. And even if it's just you know it was wonderful to meet you at this meeting, I would love to stay in touch. Or if there's a question or something that you can kind of talk about following your conversation. Kind of move it on. And that's always really helpful to kind of get them into your network. Obviously, if they're at a conference and you email them that night or something, then it might take a few days for them to respond because they're really conference,