LinkedIn study suggests it's not your best pals who will help get you that next job
A study of 20 million LinkedIn users over five years has raised a few eyebrows as it involved quietly analyzing people's connection suggestions to see how that would reflect in their career paths.in Science this month, sought to determine whether acquaintances on LinkedIn, described as"weak ties," or immediate colleagues and friends, known as"strong ties", were best at helping people land new opportunities.
"The authors show that the weakest ties had the greatest impact on job mobility, whereas the strongest ties had the least," the paper's abstract read."Together, these results help to resolve the apparent 'paradox of weak ties' and provide evidence of the strength of weak ties theory." The experiment involved analyzing two billion connections formed between more than 20 million users over a five-year period, and how those connections steered the acceptance of 600,000 new jobs.
"Moderately weak ties are the best," Sinan Aral, a management professor at MIT and co-author of a new paper, previouslyThe positive effect of weak ties on job hunting dwindles once a user shares more than ten mutual connections with another user, we're told."If you share more than [10 mutual connections] with someone on LinkedIn, the usefulness of your connection to the other person, in job-hunting terms, diminishes," the MIT team noted.
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