Networking for networking’s sake is all very nice, but ultimately if you are going to cut it in the professional world, you smile, sip your fizzy water, and home in on the big prospects who will provide you with your income stream for the forseeable time – and schmooze the hell out of them while you stay stone cold sober.

What you don’t do is scarf the eats, glug the grog, chit-chat with your friends and head for home thinking you did good. You didn’t.