Blog #3 Scientific American Article

 

This article “A Massive LinkedIn Study Reveals Who Actually Helps You Get That Job “written by Viviane Callier explains that Acquaintance can actually be your strength of “weak ties” when it come to employment. This article stated that you can’t always rely on your friends or families if you ever wanted to gain a new job.  You’re most likely are going to grab a new position through your “weak ties” which is your loose acquaintances that you have a few mutual connections with according to the influential theories in the social science. Study show that had more than 20 million people that was on the professional social networking site called LinkedIn shows that forging weak ties can indeed help people get a brand new job in over the five years period. It shows that whichever type of connections can be the most important for anyone who are job hunting. This article mentions that people that are in many different communities can give a whole lots of new set of information along with helpful connections. Even having a mutual friend can actually act like a bridge to be able to contact people from different groups. This could provide new opportunity for you when it’s come to job hunting.