*WINNER - International Book Award - Career category!*WINNER - National Indie Excellence Award - Career category!*FINALIST - USA Best Book Award - Career category!*SILVER - Axiom Business Book Award - Career category!Welcome to The 20-Minute Networking Meeting! Whether your meetings are virtual or in person, this book will successfully serve any job-seeker from any background-field sales to customer service; doctor to bartender; teacher to derrickman; legal aid to construction; retail to management. All you need is desire; the rest is in this book!Built using the acclaimed The 20-Minute Networking Meeting-Executive Edition networking model lauded by business leaders around the world, this new 2016 Professional Edition puts you in control of your job-search discussions and, ultimately, your career.Taking the best elements of the best networkers from a multitude of industries and professions, combined with 40 years of the authors' own experience, the Professional Edition culminates in a highly productive networking approach from a hiring perspective.In this book, learn what networking (really) is, and how to: Master the 5 most important parts of a networking meeting; Create a networking agenda; Construct key questions to lead a discussion; Expand a professional network with more names; Break into the "Invisible/Hidden Job Market" (where over 70% of all jobs are obtained); Make a networking meeting more effective, efficient, and mutually beneficial; Execute the above (and much more)- inside of 20 minutes; Maintain your new network throughout your career!Chock full of real-world scenarios, short stories, meeting examples, and dozens of tips and observations from hiring authorities and recruiting experts, the Professional Edition is an end-to-end lesson on job-search networking, founded on the premises of gratitude, positivity, and reciprocity. Specifically constructed to clarify and simplify networking for job-search, the Professional Edition was written for even the most introverted networker and is rounded out with a complete set of readiness worksheets that guide the reader through actual networking preparation, with fully written stories that show the entire The 20-Minute Networking Meeting model in action.