ASK THE HEADHUNTER How can I make the inside job contacts I need?

[deanwebb]

How can I make the inside job contacts I need?

In the August 1, 2017 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, an Army graduate needs help making inside job contacts to get around the personnel jockeys. Question I am looking for work and I am studying your book. If you have any advice on how to build the contacts I need to land a good job, that would be extremely helpful. I recently transitioned out of the Army. I’m new in town and don’t know anyone. Without contacts, I’m at the mercy of those personnel jockeys — and I’m not having much success. Certainly someone in my area (Pittsburgh) needs an experienced

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[matgar]

I guess its good advice. But as an Aspie just make friends with random successful it guy in the region runs into a bit of a problem with the whole "make friends with" part.

[deanwebb]

This is true. Honestly, I wish there was a kind of training IT people could get to help them deal with autism spectrum disorders, so that we could deal with all kinds of people without thinking that there's something wrong with them if they don't like local sports teams or seem to get the jokes we're telling.

As a former teacher, I know that people with autism spectrum behaviors are much easier to work with once we take a little time to add a little more explanation to what we are saying or feeling. In return, we can get some people that are very focused on details, who show a very high degree of competence. They're still human and capable of error, but they're also just as capable of excellence.

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But, also, there are online associations that we can make via boards like this and Linked In, where reading expressions is not possible or not as important in making the connection. How do those normally go for you?