Sociologist Mark Granovetter showed the importance of 'weak ties' — connections with people one does not know well — in finding a job, about four decades before this article's publication.
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- How your college friendships help you (theconversation.com)
- https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2023/07/strength-weak-ties (news.stanford.edu)
- https://news.mit.edu/2022/weak-ties-linkedin-employment-0915 (news.mit.edu)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/personal-networks/from-mark-s-granovetter-the-strength-of-weak-ties/F9F82B338651C2CD5489A40A058C8618 (cambridge.org)
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