Recession-Proofing Your Career: Weak Ties | JobSearchTV.com
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
Statistics bear out that recession-proofing your career involves developing weak ties.
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To recession-proof your career, it’s important to develop what are nickname weak ties. That is people who you don’t know, well, who know you. How do you do that?
LinkedIn is a fabulous tool because you can share content, comment on it, people start to notice you in their feed, and they start to get an impression of you. Like it or not, the statistics bear out that it isn’t your closest connections who are the ones who will help you find work. It’s the people who you don’t know who may get to know you and like what you say, and like what you think, who will be the source of how you find your next position.
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