{"id":2356,"date":"2022-09-16T06:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2022-09-16T06:57:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:57:11","slug":"job-seekers-need-their-weaker-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/job-seekers-need-their-weaker-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Job-seekers need their &#8220;weaker ties&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2022\/09\/15\/real-strength-weak-ties\/\">This is a really interesting study<\/a> that fortifies an important intuition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market and found that weaker social connections have a greater beneficial effect on job mobility than stronger ties.<\/em><\/p><p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GettyImages-1227412970.jpg\"><\/a>A team of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard scientists finds \u201cweaker ties\u201d are more beneficial for job seekers on LinkedIn.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p><em>\u201cA practical implication of the research is that it\u2019s helpful to reach out to people beyond your immediate friends and colleagues when looking for a new job,\u201d explained\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digitaleconomy.stanford.edu\/people\/erik-brynjolfsson\/\">Erik Brynjolfsson<\/a>, who is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor at Stanford University. \u201cPeople with whom you have weaker ties are more likely to have information or connections that are useful and relevant.\u201d<\/em><\/p><p><em>Brynjolfsson co-led the first large-scale, longitudinal, experimental study on the \u201cstrength of weak ties,\u201d one of the most influential social theories of the last 100 years. The \u201cstrength of weak ties\u201d theory maintains that infrequent, arms-length relationships \u2013 known as weak ties \u2013 are more beneficial for employment opportunities, promotions, and wages than strong ties. &#8230;<\/em><\/p><p><em>The team\u2019s findings are detailed in a paper, titled\u00a0A causal test of the strength of weak ties\u00a0that published this week in the journal\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.add0692\">Science<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><p><em>The strength of weak ties theory is based on the idea that weak ties allow distant clusters of people to access novel information that can lead to new opportunities, innovation, and increased productivity. The author of this theory, Mark Granovetter, argued in 1973 that weak ties are particularly helpful in delivering new employment opportunities because they introduce novel labor market information to a broader social network.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a really interesting study that fortifies an important intuition: A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/09\/16\/job-seekers-need-their-weaker-ties\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[123,86,108],"class_list":["post-2356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-employment","tag-relationship","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2358,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356\/revisions\/2358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}