How to Use Connections to Get a First Job

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Tip 1 - 7 Ways Not to Use Your Connections to Get a Job - US News

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Cathy Mick | permalink

Many articles that tell you how to use your connections to find a job, but few tell you what not to do
Tags: careers, cubicle, jobs,G.L. Hoffman, workday,Hoffman, G.L., salary, office, work, job search

For further reading: http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2010/07/20/7-ways-not-to-use-your-connections-to-get-a-job ^[1]

Tip 2 - Why Personal Connections Matter & Can Get You Hired | Glassdoor Blog

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Regina Testa | permalink

Personal connections land jobs. Everybody knows that. Hence, “It’s not what you know, but who you know.” Indeed, in surveys, it’s typical for roughly half of employees to say that they found their job through a friend, family member, or other type of social network contact. But not all connections are likely to be equal. In a job search, talking to people and networking is clearly important, but who are the best people to talk to? How social networks matter for getting jobs—and all other sorts of life outcomes—has long pre-occupied sociologists and networks researchers. The classic answer to the question of which contacts matter for finding a job starts with the work of Mark Granovetter, who in the late 1960s and early 1970s interviewed a few hundred Boston-area job seekers. To his surprise, Granovetter found that people were much more likely to land jobs from information passed on by people they weren’t particularly close to. In interviews, Granovetter asked people whether a fri
Tags: job search,networking,social network

For further reading: http://www.glassdoor.com/blog/personal-connections-matter-hired/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - A New Way to Get a Job When You Have No Inside Connections

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Boyd Andrews | permalink

Hemant Mohapatra set his sights on getting a job at one of three prestigious American companies—McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group or Google. As a student at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School in the U.K., he knew a few people who worked inside the companies but didn’t feel comfortable asking them to [...]
Tags: Careers,Entrepreneurs,Leadership,Small Business Disruptors

For further reading: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/04/17/a-new-way-to-get-a-job-when-you-have-no-inside-connections/ ^[3]

Tip 4 - Leveraging Real-Life Connections to Get your First Job

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Alexander Tan | permalink

For further reading: http://blog.cachinko.com/2012/06/15/leveraging-real-life-connections-to-get-your-first-job/ ^[4]

Tip 5 - How to Help Your Teenager Find a Part-Time Job

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by edutexvipack | permalink

Is your teenager looking for his or her first part-time job? Use this tips list to help your teen launch a successful part-time job search.
Tags: teenager part time job, part time job for teenagers, find a part time job

For further reading: http://www.connectionsacademy.com/blog/posts/2012-10-19/How-to-Help-Your-Teenager-Find-a-Part-Time-Job.aspx ^[5]