How to Build Your Network - Gideon Joseph, CEO & Founder, Transatlantic

How can young adults use networking to progress their careers? We spoke to Gideon Joseph, the CEO and founder of Transatlantic, a communications and PR agency for early-stage tech businesses. Prior to founding Transatlantic, Gideon worked as a journalist and executive producer at BBC, Sky, ITV, Channel 4 and the NY Times. He also worked as a Marketing Consultant at Skype for 10 years.

Throughout his varied career, he’s been able to give and receive a lot of good advice through networking. In this video he shares some of that advice, highlighting why the connections we make are important and how young adults can approach people to make those initial connections.

In the video he discusses: 

• What Transatlantic do as a company
• His responsibilities as CEO and the lessons he’s learned as a leader
• The upsides and downsides of being an entrepreneur 
• What he’s found most interesting throughout his career and how his interest in people has got him to where he is
• Challenges he’s faced, including overcoming feelings of not being good enough
• Advice for young people including harnessing the power of Linkedin
  

The Circl Interview Series asks leaders of the UK’s most exciting businesses to share their career paths and advice with the next generation of talent. Check out our other interviews with professionals from organisations such as Facebook, Bulb Energy and Arcadis UK.

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