IT Networking Career Strategy
IT professional networking strategy: LinkedIn engagement, professional associations, meetup tactics, the giving model, and how to ask for referrals effectively.
The exact change
"The strength of weak ties was identified by sociologist Mark Granovetter in the 1970s and has been confirmed by subsequent research including LinkedIn's own analysis of job finding patterns. Your next significant career opportunity is more likely to come from someone you don't know well than from your close friends and colleagues. The implication is that broad, diverse, and consistently maintained connections matter as much as deep relationships." -- Network and career researcher discussing Granovetter's theory in a professional development context
The strength of weak ties was identified by sociologist Mark Granovetter in the 1970s and has been confirmed by subsequent research including LinkedIn's own analysis of job finding patterns. Your next significant career opportunity is more likely to come from someone you don't know well than from your close friends and colleagues. The implication is that broad, diverse, and consistently maintained connections matter as much as deep relationships.
Suggested change
De-attributed the unverifiable anonymous quote to plain prose; verified the networking statistic as accurate and left it unchanged.
Why this is better
De-attributed a quote credited to an anonymous 'network and career researcher' paraphrasing Granovetter's real theory to plain prose, since no verifiable source exists for this specific statement. The '70-80% of jobs filled through networking' statistic was checked against multiple independent sources (LinkedIn, HubSpot, NPR/Career Horizons) and found to be a widely corroborated figure, so it was left unchanged.
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