I stumbled across a fun “tool” run by Xing called “My Network Value”. If you get a chance, have a play – it takes less than 5 minutes to complete.
Here is my result – and I’m over £2.5m richer than I thought I was!!!
Have a play – and let’s compare results. I think there were a couple of figures that I filled in that might have skewed the figures in my favour – can you guess what they were?
Their comments on my network are below:-
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Auto response – but very useful!
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