Book excerpt: Networking is your most important tool for finding a great job and for advancing rapidly in your career. Guerrilla Networking provides you with networking principles, strategies, and tactics to capture and keep great jobs. It includes provocative secrets and ideas for employment and career networking. To capture and keep great jobs, do the following: Consider networking as the most important tool in your job search toolbox. Develop your networking skills by learning and practicing all of the ideas in this book. Learn about and be an excellent networking node. Seek out good networking nodes to keep in contact with throughout your life. Maintain your good networking nodes and relationships throughout your life. Be responsive and helpful to your best networking nodes . always. Prepare and send letters of references as soon as possible after a good networking node asks you for a reference letter. Guerrilla Networking opens eyes, causes outside-of-the-box thinking, and promulgates paradigm shifts. Networking is the most important of all your tools to use for capturing a great job. If you learn, internalize, and apply the principles contained in this book, you will capture and keep great jobs throughout your career.