Chit Chatting For Career Conversations, Safety, & Weak Ties

Chit chatting with a wide variety of people
in a wide variety of situations
cultivates the confidence to create connections
with specific people in specific situations
for career conversations.

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“Once you master small talk, you are guaranteed to:

Build business
Make friends
Improve networking skills
Get dates
Land jobs”

Debra Fine
The Fine Art of Small Talk
Page xviii

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“With a smile and a kind word they (True Warriors) make friends wherever they go,
and they never carry the mark of a victim.”

“Stated simply, the more friends you have in the world, the safer you are.”

Shawn T. Smith
Surviving Aggressive People: Practical Violence Prevention Skills for the Workplace and the Street
Pages 2 and 15.

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“As Granovetter pointed out, the people whom you spend a lot of time with
wim in the same pool of information as you do.
We depend on friendly outsiders to bring us news of opportunities from beyond our immediate circles –
and so the more of those acquaintances we have, the better.”

Ian Leslie
“Why your ‘weak-tie’ friendships may mean more than you think”
BBC
July 2, 2020

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“But in a place such as Silicon Valley weak ties are gold.”

Eric Weiner
The Geography of Genius: Lessons from the World’s Most Creative People
Page 303

Bookstores

Car Dealerships

Courthouses

Dental Clinics

Financial Institutions

Garden Centers

Gas Stations

Grocery Stores

Homes

Hospitals

Ice Cream Stands

Libraries

Meat Markets

Medical Clinics

Neighborhoods

Optical Stores

Parking Lots

Restaurants

Retail Stores

Schools

Thrift Stores