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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. This advice originated in a groundbreaking study by sociologist Mark Granovetter in the early 1970s. said they found out through a weak tie.