{"id":83132,"date":"2022-10-03T17:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=83132"},"modified":"2022-10-03T17:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T21:37:13","slug":"a-team-of-stanford-mit-and-harvard-scientists-finds-weaker-ties-are-more-beneficial-for-job-seekers-on-linkedin-news-stanford-edu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/10\/03\/a-team-of-stanford-mit-and-harvard-scientists-finds-weaker-ties-are-more-beneficial-for-job-seekers-on-linkedin-news-stanford-edu\/","title":{"rendered":"A team of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard scientists finds \u201cweaker ties\u201d are more beneficial for job seekers on LinkedIn [news.stanford.edu]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2022\/09\/15\/real-strength-weak-ties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>The real strength of weak ties <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from news.stanford.edu; with thanks to Roberto Ferraro for this resource<br \/>\n<em>A team of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard scientists finds \u201cweaker ties\u201d are more beneficial for job seekers on LinkedIn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date on the impact of digital job sites on the labor market and found that weaker social connections have a greater beneficial effect on job mobility than stronger ties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cA practical implication of the research is that it\u2019s helpful to reach out to people beyond your immediate friends and colleagues when looking for a new job,\u201d explained\u00a0Erik Brynjolfsson, who is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor at Stanford University. \u201cPeople with whom you have weaker ties are more likely to have information or connections that are useful and relevant.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real strength of weak ties &#8212; from news.stanford.edu; with thanks to Roberto Ferraro for this resource A team of Stanford, MIT, and Harvard scientists finds \u201cweaker ties\u201d are more beneficial for job seekers on LinkedIn. Excerpt: A team of researchers from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, and LinkedIn recently conducted the largest experimental study to date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,533,216,560,217,20,66,321,214,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career-development","category-experimentation","category-microsoft","category-parents-guardians","category-research","category-strategy","category-student-related","category-united-states","category-universities","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83134,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83132\/revisions\/83134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}