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[RRE]Networking on the Network

``` Networking on the Network

Phil Agre February 2000

http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/network.html

Please forward this announcement to every PhD student in the world.

As a student preparing for a career in research, you have two jobs: (1) do some good research, and (2) build a community around your research topic. This community is called your professional network. Unfortunately, many students neglect their networking; either they feel overwhelmed by short-term demands, or they associate networking with politics and manipulation, or they are working in a hierarchical environment that does not encourage individuals to act on their own. Yet building your professional network is the best way to ensure that your dissertation and other research publications will be read. It is also the best way to get a job once you graduate. The skills are easy enough with practice, but they are not at all obvious to beginners.

"Networking on the Network" is a guide to professional networking for PhD students. Originally written for the students of the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego, it has been continuously expanded and revised for six years, incorporating comments from dozens of researchers in many fields. It includes detailed instructions for identifying individuals who should be part of your professional network, contacting and corresponding with those people, building your network at professional conferences, organizing events of your own, and citing others' work in your dissertation. It also includes a lengthy section on interviewing for academic jobs.

"Networking on the Network" is free and available on the Web at . Please send any comments that might improve it, and pass it along to others who can use it.

Thanks very much ```

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