Skip the Job Boards: How to Strengthen Your Connections and Find Your Next Role

Dan Gilbert

Strategist, ex-Stanford Instructor

Energizing Your Connections to Help Thrive in Uncertainty

The job market is broken. AI-generated applications flood the channels for legitimate candidates and AI-empowered screening tools filter out human created content that doesn't match perfectly.

For career-changers and job-hunters, the people that make up the outer rings of your network know about into opportunities and communities that you can't access. This session teaches you how to apply years of research about the power of “weak ties” to open new opportunities, energize your thinking and even improve your mental well-being.

This live series is for professionals considering a career move and know how difficult it is to only apply to jobs online. The course meets live for one hour each week for six weeks.

You might be an introvert or extrovert; you might know many people or only a few. This course will help you energize the relationships you have with people who are on the outer rings of your network.

Working in small groups and directly with Dan, you will learn specific techniques and higher-level frameworks to energize your connections with authenticity and confidence.

What you’ll learn

After this course, students will know how to energize dormant relationships to learn about opportunities that feel hidden or out of reach.

Identify 15+ former colleagues, classmates, or other loose connections that can be powerful allies
Sort your connections by relevance to the future you want to create, as opposed to the context you met them in the past

Practice personal communication in a safe and facilitated cohort
Identify specific frameworks and research that supports your personal goals

Participate in an active engaging class with professionals at different stages in their careers
Learn from others and contribute your experiences to a dynamic group of fellow learners

Work with a trusted partners to raise questions and reminders about people you have met in your past
Identify the kinds of people you want to bring into your weak tie network

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Who this course is for

Career Changers looking for opportunities in new fields that overlap with contacts whom they haven't engaged in awhile
Mid-Career Professionals who are starting to feel the uncertainty about their job
Managers & Leaders looking for fresh ideas & inspiration to help employees move from task-oriented work to more relational-oriented work

What's included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Dan Gilbert in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Course syllabus

Week 1

Sep 11—Sep 13

Sep

Session 1: Foundation What are weak ties and how do they work

Fri 9/115:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Sep 14—Sep 20

Sep

Session 2: Thinking relationally, not transactionally - setting yourself up for success

Fri 9/185:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Schedule

Live sessions

1 hr / week

Each class meeting is highly interactive and will include lots of small group work. Most of the session is designed for real-time communication, sharing and connecting.

Fri, Sep 11
5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Sep 18
5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Sep 25
5:00 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)