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Where’s Your Network?
Looking for contacts in all the right places
âž” Ask anyone who has experience with job seeking experience and you’ll most likely get the same answer. It doesn’t matter if you ask a job coach, a mentor, a recruiter, a hiring manager, or any HR specialist. You also can ask people who have recently been involved in a job search.
The question is: What’s the most effective activity you can do in your job search? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Yale University report, 70 percent of all jobs are found through networking. No matter how you slice it and dice, that’s a significantly high proportion.
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