If you didn’t make it out to our eighth annual NET/WORK Philly event last night at The Fillmore, you missed some cool connections and hot networking tips.

About 500 people looking for their entry into the tech world, a mid-career change or just to scope out some new opportunities mixed and mingled with folks from about 50 area tech companies.

Two members of Seer Interactive’s people operations team, Emily Meekins and Jacqueline Wallace, led a workshop, “NET/WORK Like a Natural,” to help folks get through the often nerve-wracking process of networking like a natural. Of all jobs that are filled, about 85% of them are done so through networking in some capacity, they said. And as much as 72% of hiring managers say that their first impression is impacted by someone’s appearance and handshake.

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