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The Role of Social Contacts in the Successful Job Search
Author(s) -
SILLIKER S. ALAN
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1993.tb00963.x
Subject(s) - psychology , job analysis , job shadow , job attitude , job hunting , social psychology , job performance , process (computing) , applied psychology , public relations , job satisfaction , computer science , political science , operating system
This study examined the impact of social contacts (“It's who you know, not what you know”) on job getting. Workers were interviewed to discover the source of information about their most recent job. Results show that social contacts were the most frequently used resources during the job‐getting process and that these personal contacts were used more often in some occupational environments than in others.