Whether you're just starting your career or well-established in your current role, it's important to create, grow, and maintain a network of professional acquaintances that you can reach out to for a variety of reasons in your day-to-day work. Who you know can be just as important as what you know in certain circumstances. In this course, we'll discuss why building a professional network is so critically important in business. We'll go over the benefits involved, including finding job opportunities, discovering good candidates for job openings, as well as gaining information, advice, and ideas.