Quality tops quantity when it comes to contacts

Quality tops quantity when it comes to contacts

According to a study conducted by Rahul Telang of Carnegie Mellon University and Rajiv Garg of the University of Texas, it's the quality, not the quantity, of your online professional connections that will help with a successful job search. Their study, based on a survey of 424 jobseekers, was published in Management Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

PittsburghPost-Gazette, October 2, 2017