{"id":109,"date":"2019-06-05T16:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/?p=109"},"modified":"2019-06-05T16:30:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:30:40","slug":"preparing-for-networking-receptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/2019\/06\/05\/preparing-for-networking-receptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Networking Receptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you\u00a0begin planning for the many law firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/current-students\/career-development\/employment-sectors\/private-sector\/employer-receptions-outreach\/\">networking receptions<\/a> this summer, please take a moment to review the CDO&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/current-students\/career-development\/networking\/networking-basics\/\">Networking Basics<\/a>\u00a0page for information on why networking is an important part of the process.\u00a0 Remember to practice your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/current-students\/career-development\/networking\/informational-interviews\/\">elevator pitch<\/a> in advance, dress appropriately (err on the formal side of business casual,\u00a0unless otherwise specified), and focus on making a few solid connections that you can follow up on. (Do not bring your resume to the event.)\u00a0 Reach out to your CDO advisor with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you\u00a0begin planning for the many law firm networking receptions this summer, please take a moment to review the CDO&#8217;s Networking Basics\u00a0page for information on why networking is an important part of the process.\u00a0 Remember to practice your elevator pitch in advance, dress appropriately (err on the formal side of business casual,\u00a0unless otherwise specified), and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/2019\/06\/05\/preparing-for-networking-receptions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Preparing for Networking Receptions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6905,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/ociblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}