Is it Networking Helpful in A Career?

The answer is exactly. For me,networking can be very helpful to our career. It is important that we should develop a network of friendly people who share information to help each other. It is best known as a strategy for opening the hidden job market, for getting a good job. Since many jobs (some would say most) are not advertised, it is essential that we develop friendly relationships with people who can tip us off to job openings - perhaps even introduce us to the person who is doing the hiring. There is some truth in, "It's not what you know, but who you know".

In my own experiences, if we realize nowadays, there are a lot of people who can have good job even they have no good credentials and some of them are not qualified with the job. But, by having good networking with people around them, they grabbed the opportunity which in fact, they are not supposedly to get it. All of this may leads to the unemployment among graduated students even they have good CGPA and many certification. I feel that it is unfair for me, as a future graduated student if this situation still not change. So,start from now I want to suggest to all my friends to develop wider networking with friends, family, lecturers, teachers,and also important person in the society. Believe it,we will get an advantages for that.

There are some benefits that we will get from have a networking.
1) We are creating a community of people who support each other, who provide
emotional support and information that will help each other.
2) We will learn about the new developments in our field: new tools, processes,
leaders,training programs, products and services.
3) We may discover the solution to a problem you face at work.
4) We may have the satisfaction of providing the key piece of information that
makes a real difference in the life of one of those in our network.

As a definition, networking is a planned, and ongoing effort.It is happened when we set goals, develop strategies for achieving them, take action, evaluate how well our plan is working, and make changes as necessary. Meaning that, networking also is a process.

So, how do you think???