A recent study found that 50 to 80% of of people are finding work via referrals and other internal moves things like moving a resume onto to the top of the pile or giving a personal direct referral that means that more than half of people are using their network as a means to further their careers now this doesn't mean
That the number of friends that we have on facebook directly contributes to how successful we are because this network only really includes individuals who like you enough to want to help you out as well as put their name on the line just for you but if we were to sit down and count the number of people who fit these requirements in our requirements in our lives we might find that we don't know as many people as we think we do in fact the average american reports only having about nine people that they would consider themselves to be close with 39% of people report only having three to five and fourteen percent of people report only having one to two so how is that the skill needed to develop something that determines the careers of sixty percent of people is barely ever covered in school things that can improve your network mainly social skill including conversations kill and body language, leadership skills, public speaking skill and sales are not being or barely ever covered
At all in schools it's silly to think how some people can spend 15 years of their life dedicated to educating themselves yet they never really learn the skills that has the highest chance of ensuring their future a lot of it comes down to the way our educational system think .They think ah these kid's they will figure it out themselves but the truth is the large majority of people have a huge room for improvement in terms of their social skill personally even i had issues when it came to building connection when i was at younger but luckily for us we live in Golden age of information videos and book courses and studies are all within a moment's reach the one thing that school forgot to teach us is how to build up our connections so take this opportunity as reminder to work on ourselves because it is vital to our success in the future
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