
Job Hunters: Quality of contacts counts
New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that it's not the quantity of LinkedIn connections that you have, but the quality, when it comes to helping you search for a new job.
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New research in the INFORMS journal Management Science finds that it's not the quantity of LinkedIn connections that you have, but the quality, when it comes to helping you search for a new job.
Before online social networks came along, finding a job was often times a matter of who you knew. The digital age hasn’t debunked that conventional wisdom. But it has deluded some into believing that having hundreds of connections on LinkedIn or other professional social networks will make their next job search quicker and more successful. However, a new study in the INFORMS journal Management Science found it's the quality, not the quantity that counts.
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