Professional Networking Trends

Today, we live in Daniel Pink's "Free Agent Nation," in which we change jobs every five years (this writer is in year 5 at JIU). For this reason, we need to create professional networks that stand alone, apart from our workplaces. Your references, in other words, move with you for they are outside your current, present job context. You can add to this network, of course, from your present job, but do not count on the present job to provide all of the ongoing reference support and job search tips that you need today and tomorrow.