It is always beneficial to maintain a good professional relationship with your colleagues, whatever your job might be. It’s useful to you for a number of reasons, as well as being an enjoyable bonus of your job to keep up a correspondence with interesting and like-minded people.

First of all, it’s a good idea to maintain contacts with your colleagues so that you are seen to be a sociable and friendly person in the work environment. This will help to make you appear as someone who enjoys their job and plays an active role in the overall work environment.

It’s also useful to maintain contact with your colleagues because your share a professional interest and may be able to help each other out. This could involve anything from helping each other to find new solutions to problems, to asking each other practice interview questions if one of you is applying for a promotion.