| Cobretti2 said:
"LinkedIn analysed its member data to see how many new hires were already connected to someone at the company prior to joining, for each industry. When you have a “first degree” connection at a company, you have a better chance at getting in and may be referred to the job by that insider. These are the industries where LinkedIn members hired most from their employee networks:" http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2015/03/the-industries-where-networking-matters-more-for-getting-a-job/
Is it really surprising that the top linkedin users are IT savy jobs or jobs where you need to have an online presence? Most industries have such a low take up of linkedin users because they do not require that online exposure that the data is essentially meaningless.
Yes qualifications play a part in getting a job, but for most industries if you are anti-social and get straight As vs someone who is social has network connections and gets B/Cs they will be picked over the straight As candidate. The only industies I seen that really care about marks is probably law and financial sectors like being an actuary or stock trader. |
Linkedin is more than some polytechnic employee advertisement place as it has over 300 million users registered so the data is very much valid for other industries ...
Again even at the extreme, the majority of the new hires are employees without connections ...
For unskilled industries yes grades do not matter much but neither do your connections in that case however if you have a C average it will be very painful to get your first job when big companies will practically filter those applicants so getting straight As does matter a whole lot ...
Once again qualifications > connections ...
