How To: Keep Your Connections Organized

The amount of alumni, recruiters, and company representatives you meet at career fairs, information session, club meetings, and everyday interactions can be overwhelming. How are you supposed to keep track of all of these connections, where they work, how you met them, and their contact information?

A huge part of networking comes from keeping in contact with the connections you make at events, so having an organized way to look back at your contacts is important. There are a couple of ways to keep track of everything, but one winning way is to make a Master Networking Contacts List excel document.

Each person you meet can be added into your personal database with their name, company information, where you met them, and any other additional information you would like to add.

Whether there are professors you would like to keep in contact with, alumni, or even a family friend who knows someone who works in a company you’re interested in, keeping an organized database will help. Eventually, you can create different sheets within the same document to be even more organized. As always, remember to back up this file, as it would be a shame to lose it!

Article By Stephanie Berenson