I hear this all the time:
“I don’t have much of a network.”
“Even if I connect with people, I doubt it leads anywhere.”
“Getting referrals feels like luck.”
And yeah… if all you do is hit “connect” and hope, it is luck.
It’s like buying a lottery ticket and praying.
But think about how hiring really works.
When a manager has an open role, do they go straight to LinkedIn?
No.
They ask the people they trust:
“Do you know anyone good?”
That’s the backdoor.
And the people who get referred are rarely the “lucky ones.”
They’re the ones who’ve built trust ahead of time.
I had a client who hated networking.
She thought she was “bad at small talk.”
So instead of chatting, we built her a Trojan Horse doc — a short deck showing how she’d improve one feature at her dream company.
She sent it to 3 people.
Two replied.
One introduced her to a hiring manager.
That intro turned into an interview.
That’s not luck.
That’s a system.
Here’s the shift: networking isn’t about knowing the “right people.”
It’s about showing the right signal so strangers want to champion you.
So ask yourself:
👉 What would happen if you treated networking less like a lottery… and more like a repeatable system?
Takeaway: Referrals aren’t random. They’re built.
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