{"id":3014,"date":"2017-11-14T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/deanjohnson\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2017-11-14T01:18:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T01:18:29","slug":"dont-wait-to-develop-your-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/2017\/11\/dont-wait-to-develop-your-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t wait to develop your network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number one mistake I see new MBA students make is waiting to develop their networks.<\/p>\n<p>Top B-schools offer an amazing (and sometime overwhelming) set of opportunities to network. Students should never miss a chance to share coffee or a lunch with a visiting executive.<\/p>\n<p>Even after a long day, stopping by for a reception can be career changing.<\/p>\n<p>I participated in a roundtable article about <a href=\"https:\/\/graduateschoolsite.com\/mba-student-mistakes\/\">MBA student mistakes<\/a> and how to avoid them. More than 20 people contributed to the article and the final product has some useful advice for MBA students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number one mistake I see new MBA students make is waiting to develop their networks. Top B-schools offer an amazing (and sometime overwhelming) set of opportunities to network. Students should never miss a chance to share coffee or a lunch with a visiting executive. Even after a long day, stopping by for a reception&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9914,"featured_media":3017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9914"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/mericjohnson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}