Network Yourself to Success

In this podcast episode, we dive deep into how to build your personal brand to Supercharge your career with Paz Kagan, Gen. Z expert. 

At the end of this podcast, you will know: 

• How Paz got started with his YouTube channel and grew it to +100K viewers 
• Why building a personal brand is important to your career in Tech 
• How to get started with Selfbranding
• What kind of content you should publish to stand out
• How to publish content if you're not an expert
• How to create valuable content  
• Why a degree is not enough in today's market 
• What characterizes Generation Z

Meet Benny Rubinstein, Microsoft Azure Founding Team Member, a Serial intrapreneur and entrepreneur with 20+ years of experience driving sales & marketing strategy and leading global and regional business development. Benny has successfully built global sales teams in Microsoft for over a decade as well as in start-ups such as Breezometer.  In this episode, we will dive into the qualities needed to succeed in tech sales and how the best salespeople in the industry know how to build long-term relationships and use consultative sales talks with their key customers to drive results.

In these days when most of us are working from home, we can all need a few tips on how to network on LinkedIn like a pro.

Meet David Leichner, executive marketing manager with +30 years of experience in the Israeli tech eco-system. David is an Oleh vatik, who build his career from scratch and is today CMO of SQream, the company behind  the fastest GPU-accelerated data warehouse. David's expertise includes International marketing, network development and building long term business relationships. In this podcast, David shares some of his insights into breaking into tech. 

In this week's episode we'll be talking to Roy Munin, CEO & Cofounder of Jerusalem's successfull start-up and tech community, Made in Jerusalem, which helped 5x the city's tech startups per year and bring billions of dollars in tech investment to the city. Roy was recognized by Forbes in 2017 as one of Forbes 30 under 30, and was in that same year awarded the WeWork Creator Awards. He is also one of 100 of the first global Fellows at Facebook's Community Leadership Program (2018) and one of Jerusalem's first Global Shapers at the World Economic Forum (2019).  Most recently Roy initiated  Side Project Club JLM and Side Project Club TLV, a community which brings developers, digital designers and marketers together on a weekly basis to work on and test entrepreneurial initiatives and ideas on the side of their day job.  Interessted in receiving notifcations about future podcasts and info on how to network? Click here to Sign up to the WeNetwork newsletter and feel free to "Like" our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wenetwork.io/ and visit the WeNetwork website: https://wenetwork.io Episode Highlights: 03:00 : The story of building the alumni organization of IASA - Israeli Arts and Science Academy. Roy's first experience as a community builder and how it got him "hoked" and passionate about the power of  "representing something bigger than yourself". 16:44: How to grow and scale a community examplified by MadeinJLM's growth. In short: Start at an individual level, build a small core/leadership forum, and then scale from there with regular events and actively reaching out to people who's not part of the "bubble" of the first core group.  28:40: How Roy organized himself meetings with key people from some of the top tech companies in silicon valley. Hint: It's all about the community leaders  35:50: How Roy got a meeting with the entire team of Facebook Groups in Silicon Valley.  42:30: Side Project Club - A new supportive community for aspiring entreprenuers to test their start-up ideas and find partners to their projects.  51:10: How to customize your own DYI CRM-system: Airtable, Google contacts, integromate and contacts+ Roy is one of the best community builders I know, an amazing networker, super-connector and a stellar entrepreneur.  He has a great ability to bring people together, connect the dots, create frameworks that fosters entrepreneurship and collaboration in a fun and inclusive atmosphere. What most motivated me to ask Roy to interview for this podcast is his unique superpower: To create meaningfull relations in a genuine way, rally people around his ideas, connecting people, which helps him get things done on zero budget. So in this episode we'll dive deeper into Roy's personal story and philosophy on relationship and community building.

How do you network for success in the non-profit world? Meet Arnie Draiman, a superconnector in the Israeli non-profit sector.

Arnie Draiman has been involved in the non-profit world for more than 20 years. His company, Draiman Consulting serves individual donors and philanthropists, family foundations, Tzedakah funds – anyone interested in giving his or her money away wisely. By doing the due diligence necessary for his clients, Arnie has a broad view of the non-profit sector and knows the sector inside out.  Arnie can be reached at: ajdraiman@gmail.com

Interview with Ziv Mandl - CEO of John Bryce (In Hebrew)

Ziv Mandl is a legend in the Israeli Hi-Tech Eco-system and a very poular speaker on how to network efficiently.  In this episode, Ziv addresses the Olim community and lays out his philosophy on how to newtork successfully.  According to Ziv, mastering the network game is about daring to step out of your comfortzone and reach out to meet people outside of your closed circle of friends/connections. And while you are bound to get rejections and negative responses when you do reach out, it's important to always keep a positive attitude and keep going. People will connect to you if you have a positive energy and passionate about what you do. Just always be aware of creating value for the other person and preparing yourself before a meeting. Ziv lays out his ideas of how to prepare before a meeting..  And last but not least: Networking is a long term game. You may not see the fruits right away.

Upcoming course: Wanna dive deeper into how to network yourself to a dream job? Get on the waitlist for my upcoming online course launching in June 2021: https://wenetwork.lpages.co/ilcourse

Meet two successful US Olim: Scott Gross, associate partner at Cornerstone Venture Partners and  Jordan Greenberg, program manager at Lightico.

In this episode, Scott and Jordan share their story of how they networked and worked hard to land "THE job" rather than just "a job" in Israel. They are great examples of how hard work, patience, relationship building, a positive attitude and persistence yields great results. 

In this episode, I give suggestions on how to approach people at a meet-up. Following a short intro, the episode is a recording from a lecture on July 14th at Gvahim for Olim (new immigrants to Israel) jobseekers. Enjoy:)