Everyone has heard about the importance of building a professional network. The saying, “It’s not what you know it’s who you know.” rings true. The more people you know that can help you achieve your career goals the faster you will complete them. What many people forget about is as they create their professional network they could be creating an anti-network as well. An anti-network is made up of people who dislike working with you for various reasons. It may be they do not like you professionally or they do not like you personally. Either way you have started creating your anti-network. An anti-network is made up of those who want to see you either fail or out of their work environment all together. It may not concern you how your coworkers view you now but later on down the road it could hurt your chances of getting a job you really want. You could find yourself applying for a job with a company sometime that one of your former coworkers works at. They could be the one who looks at your resume or interviews you. They may be in a position where they would be your supervisor. So it is as important to keep your anti-network small as it is to grow your professional network.
