Everybody talks about meeting new people and renewing old contacts as a way to uncover job leads.

But after you speak to someone about your job search, then what?

You follow up with them later, that’s what.

Follow-up is an often-neglected part of networking that can pay off huge in your search for work — as much as $417 an hour, as we’ll see.

To motivate you to follow up with your network contacts — all of them — here are two recent success stories from my readers. What can you learn from each?

1) Follow up with old contacts

Lynda H., from Apple Valley, Minn., interviewed with a Fortune 500 company in Minneapolis last year. They offered her a job, but rescinded when the departing employee, whose position Lynda was to fill, decided not to quit after all.

What would you have done?

Here’s what Lynda did.

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