SEEKING AND SECURING SUCCESS

With three applicants for every job opening, more job seekers are turning to social networking to get ahead.  But should you connect to advance your career or someone else’s? Bestselling author Adam Grant says ‘givers’ not ‘takers’ inevitably find and maintain long-term career success. Is his advice the right fit for America’s 11 million looking for work in an economy still rebounding?  

In this episode of The Stream, we'll speak to:

Adam Grant @AdamMGrant
Author, Give and Take
mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/1323

Julian Jensen @hirejulian
Social Media Entrepreneur 
donothireme.com

Aaron Burgess @AaronTBurgess
Master of Public Policy, UC Berkeley
linkedin.com/pub/aaron-burgess

Tom Stowell @ThomasStowell
Founder & CEO, Stowell and Associates
tomstowell.com

What do you think? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below. 

In his book Give and Take, Wharton School of Business professor Adam Grant lays out his key to long-term success: Being a giver, which is defined roughly as those who "give without expectation of immediate gain." Givers reside in the workplace with two other kinds of professionals, according to Grant, matchers and takers - who are also categorized based on their style of interaction. Below, Grant describes his theory for success in his own words.