I got my current job because my old professor knew I was looking for a job and personally recommended me.
This bothers me a lot. Where I work everyone got the job because of their parents or relationships to the CEO or someone on leadership. Mostly rich or high profile people.
I was the first person to be hired with no connections. No references from the same area, just my past jobs that they knew no one from. I had to go through a bunch of interviews and sit with the CEO well he rattled off people I might know in the community. Probably just to identify some connections to the elites in the area.
I was honest, I don’t come from the same area. Didn’t know anyone. Both my parents worked blue collar jobs away from politics or influence. All I had going for me, I was good at my profession and they needed that filled.
At the end of the day, people trust people they know more than people they don’t. I have a job that I got through my friend’s recommendation despite me having no relevant prior experience, just because my manager trusted my friend more than a piece of paper outlining some stranger’s supposed skillset and achievements. You’ve gotta play more into the psychology of the people doing the hiring, rather than the actual job description.
Isn’t that “Connections”?
In Germany, we call it “Vitamin B” (B for Beziehungen which means relationships/contacts).
on Brazil, we call it IQ ( QI, quem indique which means someone who can recommend you)
No. I can’t explain it, really, but my dad knows a guy
The difference is nepotism
