The best executive roles, board seats, and partnerships are filled before they're ever posted — through relationships and trusted referrals built over time. Are you networking with a strategy, or just hoping the right opportunity finds you?
The Numbers
55%
Referred candidates are hired 55% faster than non-referred applicants and have significantly higher long-term retention, accelerating both short-term job outcomes and long-term career momentum.
70-85%
Up to 70-85% of jobs are filled through networking rather than public applications, showing that personal connections dramatically shorten job-search timelines.
2x
Professionals who actively network are 2x more likely to be promoted or recruited for new roles within 3 years, because weak-tie connections surface opportunities earlier than formal channels.
Why It Matters
The most valuable opportunities are never publicly advertised: Executive roles, board seats, and high-level partnerships are filled through personal relationships and trusted referrals — networking creates that access.
Deliberate networking compounds over years: Each meaningful professional relationship you cultivate today increases the probability that you are top-of-mind when the right opportunity emerges months or years from now.
Goal-aligned networking eliminates wasted effort: Networking without a clear strategy wastes time on low-relevance connections. A targeted plan focuses your energy on the relationships that directly accelerate your professional goals.
Your network reflects your professional caliber: Decision-makers assess your value partly by the company you keep — a strong, visible network of accomplished professionals elevates your perceived standing.
Networking resilience protects against market disruption: Executives with broad, deep professional networks navigate career transitions, industry shifts, and economic downturns far more successfully than those who rely on a single employer or client.
Find Your Fit
See why MyProfessionalBrand is the leading executive agency that helps thousands of executives reach their goals faster and in new ways.
Every quarter we'll provide you with a database of specific networking connections and how each could help, based on analyzing your connections on LinkedIn, previous jobs, and any other communities you are a part of. We'll also create a one-degree of separation list that targets 50 incredibly key people that someone you know has a connection to that could be a perfect fit. And finally we'll provide specific examples of emails and texts for what to say and how to make the networking natural and easy, but still aligned with your goals.
Get StartedIn addition to everything in the Foundational Plan, we'll help you consistently create content and post on social media so your visibility grows and generates inbound networking opportunities. Content creation, scheduling guidance, and engagement strategy -- handled for you.
Get StartedIn addition to everything in the Foundational and Activation Plans, we'll help you create a credibility lever - write a book, start a podcast, develop an app, or create an A.I. engine - that separates you from everyone else and makes you the go-to person in your space.
Get StartedLet us handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on what you do best.
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