Importance of Networking
Comments discuss how personal networks and connections are crucial for career success, job opportunities, and professional advancement, often more than individual knowledge or skills.
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The important part is not your knowledge, its all about your network.
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Invest in your network and everything else will fall into place.
network. their whole value is they (and their contacts) know more talented people than you (and your contacts). if they don't, then you're paying for a glorified scheduler / Linkedin message sender.
Evidently it's not what you know, but who you know.
Yes, this is an old concept called "networking". Unfortunately not everyone's very good at it, and unfortunately not being good at networking doesn't mean you wouldn't be good at the job in question. But that's life... social connections are indeed an important factor in all walks of life, and not something you learn in any classroom. It's a hard lesson for some of us.
Without networking you might just end up with more nepotism.
Those people probably have very strong personal networks and a willingness to reach out to them for opportunities or a very high profile in their niche.OP appears to have neither.
It's about who you know more than how good you are.
What's wrong with hiring for network and connections? (If they actually do contribute to the bottom line of the company.)
Network within a field you're interested in. That is much more efficient than talking to random people. ... by probably two orders of magnitude.