So to stay employed over the next year they say I'm supposed to...
So to stay employed over the next year they say I'm supposed to in-person-network.
In this society? 90% of people at 90% of the social events I've been to in the last decade I meet people once & never see them again. And I often was meetup organizer!
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Incredibly inefficient way to find a job, at least for me. I suppose for the hypersocial people that meet most of their friends on trains and airplanes, maybe it works for them.
Economists studied this (specifically does church attendance make you rich(er) because of the in-person social networking?) and there was no effect to speak of.
This stuff happens, but I think we collectively think about it like the time we won a hand at black jack and now we think that, maybe black jack is the reliable path to success.