Job Networking System

You see an advertisement in the document. You apply for the job. You have all the right qualifications. You are happy with your performance in the interview. You are preparing to celebrate.
Then you hear someone else has got the job. It is someone 'the boss' knows.
You are angry and irritated. ‘Nothing is ever going to happen in this God-forsaken country’, you think. ‘It is just full of corruption and nepotism. I will never get a job.'
Just stop for one moment and ask yourself, what good is this kind of thoughts doing you? Is it helping you get a job? No. The truth is not only is this kind of thought fruitless, it is also inaccurate. While giving the job to the nephew who has no clue how to do it might be unethical and stupid, giving a job to someone you know is neither unethical, nor uncommon. The truth is, people all over the world give jobs to people they know, or know of. In fact 60 to 90% percent of job openings in the U.S. are not filled throughout advertising, recruiters or other traditional methods. They are filled through comfortable contacts.
And why not? Just imagine that you are an employer with an opening to fill. Which of the following would you be most eager to interview: (a) an unknown person who answers your advertisement, (b) an unknown person who mails you a start again, or (c) a friend recommended by someone you trust? No doubt, you would choose the ‘friend’.
So instead of blaming the employer for giving the job to someone they know, it is smarter to start viewing networking as a valuable skill for receiving a job. Mark S. Granovetter, a sociologist from Harvard, reports after years of research, that ‘informal contacts’ account for almost 75 percent of all doing well job searches in the US. Agencies find 9 percent of new jobs for professional and technical people, and advertisements yield another 10 percent or so. And according to a Wall Street Report, 94 percent of successful job hunters claimed that networking had made all the differentiation for them.