the most difficult part of networking is always starting a conversation with a stranger and keeping it going for those first five minutes Lt can be incredibly haunting to walk into a room full of people all of whom seem to know each other and are involved in deep conversations How could you join in ln fact those people might be in the same position as you Half of them also don't know anybody and are trying to get involved the busy-looking people who are walking around the hall are probably pretending to be busy so they don't have to admit that they are alone