Networking is still the number one land that job-seekers to new positions.With a 70% success rate for managers in the 2008 Executive Job Market Intelligence Report by ExecuNet, networking dwarfs all other job search methods. Online job boards have only a 13% success rate after the Wall Street Journal.

But what if you hate networking? You are banished to the borders of job boards, hoping that somehow draw among the millions of other job seekers? Do you have to hope your game to be a part of this relatively small 13% who actually ends up new positions through job fairs?

If the network is not your favorite thing to do, but you know, you have to do it for your career, here are three tips to get you started.

1) Create your convenience. Start with people you know and feel very comfortable. This could be family members, close friends and colleagues that you have formed close relationships with. Tell these people what you need, whether it is a new job or a mentor or career advice, and ask them to refer you to the people in their networks, which are able to help. By the people near you break the ice with the people they know, from a position of strength, you can network.

2) networks in a way that is comfortable for you. There are many books on networking, which have been published, many of the tips may be beneficial, but if you try to network in a manner that does not fit who you are, you are likely to give up. So when going to networking meetings and in small talk in passing the business cards is not your style, try a different approach. You can do is the kind of person who better to show what you say as fact. If so, you might want in the local chapter of your professional association voluntarily and in committees or greet people at local events. With their commitment, you will inevitably learn to know people. This may be an unconventional way of networking, but it can still get the job done when you intervene in the situation, people looking at your job after you show a chance to have had your work ethic.

3) Enter before you come. Networking must be a one-way street, so it really crosslinking, brainstorming, what you people who are able, you can help with your next career move to do so. After identifying people who can help you with your career, ideas on what such people are valuable to give. Maybe you can send an article that talks about what to cut your field. If you know someone suited for a position that is open (this is not something you would compete for) would be to refer that person to a manager that you want to network. This is a way of opening the door to the manager, so that if there is time to ask for something, you have already paved the path.