American businesswomen that spoke there. My distant friend is my dear friend now and I have a new friend, her name is Elvira Borisovna from the Moscow University of Management. The only conversations we ever had were in German, our common language. You don't know when you are giving things away that it's going to come back as a global experience.

6. Be Nice. You Don't Know Who's Watching. A woman that I met was the Human Resources Director at the Board of Pensions in downtown Minneapolis . She told me her sad story. She had worked for Control Data in Human Resources and went through the great layoffs in the 1970's. She did all the exit interviews and said goodbye to all of her friends. Then the day came for her. She took her resume, went out and at one point stopped at 3M. She was very sweet and nice but they had nothing for her. She thanked them for their time and went on her way finding this job at the Board of Pensions. Oh but then life took a very nice turn. She fell in love and she married a man from Menomonee , Wisconsin . Now she's driving from Menomonee , Wisconsin to downtown Minneapolis . That's one hour each way. Someone at 3M heard about this. They remembered how nice she was and sent her resume to Swiss Miss in Menomonee , Wisconsin . Guess who is the head of Human Resources there today?

7. Become A Critical Relationship Yourself. I started my company 10 years ago. Instead of believing that we were the only ones who could do a good job of placing people in jobs, we immediately joined an association and met all these other people who specialized in zillions of other ways. We started giving away business. I refer to it as my “Miracle on 34th Street ” philosophy of doing business. You are all probably way too young to remember the story. Santa Claus is sending everyone to Gimbels' down the street instead of keeping them at Macys'. In doing so, by giving away so much business, we have grown into a multi-million dollar corporation and, in the United States , we are the biggest staffing company which specializes in the placement of recent college graduates. Mind you, I probably can't help you but I have a list of the people that I know who can. We give it away. I would like you to do the same thing because you will be unable to keep up with the returned favors.

8. Don't Make The Worse Networking Mistake. Believing that you can go out all on your own and find your next job without any help is the worse networking mistake.

Colleen Kay Watson, is president of Career Professionals, which helps job seekers find entry-level opportunities in Management, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Finance and Administrative positions. For more information about Career Professionals, please go to http://www.gocpi.com or call 952-835-9922.

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