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Get Ahead This Year In Five Simple Steps
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It may sound like a paradox, but you can focus too much time on your job at the expense of your career. Chris Smith, a 47-year-old executive laid off in October, says he did. The former general manager of CellStar Corp., a Carrollton, Texas-based wireless-handset-and-accessories distributor, says he should have spent more time meeting and talking with customers and vendors to build a larger personal network. Now that he's job hunting, he's finding that his greatest source of leads and opportunities comes from those contacts.
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