Common Networking Blunders That Can Sabotage a Job Hunt

An email that a veteran marketing executive recently blitzed to 12,000 contacts begins: "On Sept. 11, to my complete and utter surprise, I was terminated…"

She identified her ex-employer and why the small market-research firm fired her. Copies of her message inadvertently landed in her old boss’s inbox, prompting the company to make her sign a separation agreement limiting how she spoke about her departure, her attorney said.

The otherwise effective technique could have been hassle-free. Broadcasting bad news about your job is a bad idea. "I am a prolific networker,” the dismissed executive said in an interview. But in hindsight, she concedes, the emotionally charged email "wasn’t the most professional or politic way to do it."

By Joann S. Lublin

From The Wall Street Journal Online

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