What is professional networking?
Professional networking is the deliberate building, maintaining, and ethical use of relationships through which people exchange information, perspective, access, and support.
Reflect on how well you build, maintain, and use professional relationships without making them transactional.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does professional networking mean?
Professional networking is the deliberate building, maintaining, and ethical use of relationships through which people exchange information, perspective, access, and support.
Why it matters at work
Useful networks widen what you can learn and contribute. Their value comes from trust and continued exchange, not contact counts or approaching people only when you need something.
What this assessment measures
Building connections
Creating relevant new relationships across roles, teams, and communities.
Maintaining trust
Keeping relationships alive through attention, reliability, and useful contribution.
Ethical exchange
Seeking and offering help clearly without treating relationships as hidden obligations.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your professional networking foundation
Your answers suggest a few recurring situations where a small, repeatable habit could make this capability more dependable.
A developing professional networking pattern
You already use this capability in some situations. Strengthen the dimension that becomes least reliable under pressure.
A strong professional networking pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it in harder contexts and compare your view with evidence from other people.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Hans-Georg Wolff and Klaus Moser (2009), “Effects of Networking on Career Success: A Longitudinal Study”, Journal of Applied Psychology.