Re:Business networking for nerds (2017)
by incompatible on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:33PM
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So the degree of success of your career may be entirely due to your luck in meeting a person like that. It doesn't seem very efficient, from the point of view of getting the right people into the right positions.
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Re:Business networking for nerds (2017)
by BeetleB on Saturday October 13, 2018 @11:54PM
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>It doesn't seem very efficient
It actually isn't. Which is exactly the reason networking is emphasized so much. You generally have to meet many people, with virtually no way to reliably prescreen them to get any benefit out of it. If it were a lot more efficient, it would be a lot easier and there wouldn't be a need to heavily emphasize it.
Re:Business networking for nerds (2017)
by samontar on Saturday October 13, 2018 @09:38PM
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There’s no way around it without an oracle ranking us all at our suitability for a job, unfortunately, and I would question the ability of such a thing to exist, never mind the ethics.
Something has to connect people with various skills and I trust people to do this better than anything to be honest. I would imagine that it would be a false efficiency for something else to happen. The number of charlatans in the world is too high and without human filtering I would never participate.