How Obama proves that It pays to know people!

Posted by admin, July-12-2010

One of the key features of Mypeoplebiz is the referral system that we have created that (literally) pays out for introductions of friends and makes your networking efforts financially rewarding.

It has always been important to know people, always a positive as you make your way through your career to have the right connections, especially when looking for a new job. There are many ways to get connected, social networks make it much easier these days, but its about being well connected – not just connected. Getting connected can be a huge factor in career progression, as is the ability to help yourself by gathering as much knowledge as possible and putting yourself on a path of self improvement that will open the doors to that next move, a better opportunity within your current employer, or improving your prospects of succeeding with your own business.

Coaching and mentoring have big parts to play in self improvement and in learning to be better connected; which is why mypeoplebiz is entering in to a range of partnerships in the coming weeks with coaching & mentoring organisations, CV providers, behavioural profilers and many more to help provide additional services for our community. The first of these partnerships is with Rockstar mentoring.

Is mentoring for you?

A new biography about Barack Obama by David Remnick looks at the incredible rise of his political career. It’s inspirational, he stared with no connections and he has succeeded without significant money to the top job. The journalist Sarah Sands on ‘job seekers should study Barack Obama’s rise’ commented that “he should be an inspiration in the great race for jobs” and that “connections” are to be nurtured. “He sought out powerful mentors and asked each one if they would teach and help him”. Whilst from a practical point of view this may be difficult to do, Rockstar have created one of the UK’s largest entrepreneur mentoring organisations, with a mission to help people in businesses of all sizes, from start ups to SME’s and large corporates to fast track their potential through access to a team of experts.

Founder and CEO of Rockstar, Jonathan Pfahl’s positive experience of mentoring with his career at Goldman Sachs provided the inspiration to go on and create His own business with Rockstar.

You may be able to get free mentoring with your employer, but if you want to be proactive and invest in your career to get a structured package with chosen mentors, then Rockstar can provide that from £197 per month depending on your requirement and the time and input you need from the mentor.

People tend to forget that a mentor can help with many things from helping you to overcome a lack of connections and showing you how to counter this, overcome impediments, shape your development as well as helping with business planning. When we advise on recruitment, we always focus on a  multichannel recruitment strategy, career development also needs a multichannel approach, coaching and mentoring are important parts of that rounded development for many individuals.

As we say about our referral schemes,  it pays to know people and there is a great story about a politician applying for a campaign role that encapsulates this; as he turns up an official asks “Who sent you?” the would be politician says nobody had sent him, he just wanted to help, so the official replies “We don’t want nobody that nobody sent.”

So there we go, as Sands says about Obama “the new President is a Patron Saint for job seekers without connections”. Getting yourself a mentor can help you take your next step. We at mypeoplebiz hope that our partnership can help you take your career to the next stage, take a look and Join Rockstar Mentoring