Gisele
you can think of professional relationships kind of like trees.
They might start off as little acorns but over time they're going to be strong beautiful big trees.
They can really make a difference in your career.
The thing is a lot of people don't know how to take online relationships and escalate them into something
meaningful that easel has developed.
The c c m m tool for.
It's an appropriate pathway for you to take an online relationship and make it into something meaningful
for your career.
Step one is to just make the connection.
So what you're going to do is connect with somebody on a relevant professional network like 110 seconds
you're going to try to get a chat with them.
So if it looks like they've accepted your connection request and that they're still interesting just
a little message that says something like Hey if you have a moment I'd like to chat with you so that
we can make introductions.
Next you're going to try to meet with them.
Ideally you want to meet in person but if that's not possible you can always meet via some sort of video
messaging service like Google Plus or Skype.
Finally you want to mushroom because once you connect it to this person you're kind of now connected
to all of their people.
So when you reach out to them you can say hey we know so-and-so.
So we have a mutual connection.
All right so this is how this might go down.
Let's say that Sandy is looking for a job in product development at a technology company in Silicon
Valley.
What say is going to do is she's going to choose a network say Linked-In and she's going to make sure
that her profiles looking pretty sharp then she's going to find a few organizations that she might want
to target and then find some people inside those organizations who she wants to network with then she's
going to use the easel see s.m.m guide and find the word track there for making a connection request.
Modify it for her uses and send out a bunch of connection requests as these requests get accepted.
Is going to start using the CCMA method with multiple people at the same time.
So while Sandy might be chatting with this connection she's actually going to meet this other connection
via video conference.
And with this connection she's already met them in person.
So she's going to start mushrooming out and meeting more people in their organization.
Remember Sandy is not asking for a job from these people.
She's really trying to build legitimate relationships with them.
It might happen though that one of these people hears about an opportunity and says Hey Sandy are you
still looking for a job and product development.
And that's how this whole topic is deeply related to the hidden job market which you can check out in
one of easels other videos.