120. Business Networking | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2017-06-14

Networking is an essential part of career advancement in business today, but should it be?

-Links for the Curious-

Networking, Corruption, and Subversion (Ned Dobos, 2015) - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2771599 

A general summary by Dobos on his paper - http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/just-what-are-you-trying-to-pull-20130928-2ul2m.html

Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians (Goldin & Rouse, 1997) - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5903 

Do informal contacts increase labor market inequality? Social ties, job access and wages for the unemployed (Oesch & von Ow, 2015) - https://www.lives-nccr.ch/sites/default/files/pdf/publication/38_lives_wp_oesch_informalcontacts_ip4.pdf 

The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes (Granovetter, 2005) - https://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/Reference%20Media/Granovetter_2005_Social%20Networks.pdf 

Sifting and Sorting: Personal Contacts and Hiring in a Retail Bank (Fernandez & Weinberg, 1997) - http://www.jstor.org/stable/2657345?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
 
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends (WSJ, Christopher Ingraham, 2014) - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends/ 
 
Manager Race and the Race of New Hires (Giuliano, Levine, & Leonard, 2006) - http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2006/Manager-Race-and-the-Race-of-New-Hires.pdf 

Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity (BLS Reports, 2012) - https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/race_ethnicity_2012.pdf 

41 CFR 60-300.5 - Equal opportunity clause (Via Cornell Law School) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/41/60-300.5 

Structured Interviewing: Avoiding Selection Problems (Pursell, Camplon, & Gaylord, 1980) - http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/campionm/Structured_Interviewing_Avoiding.pdf 
 
Summary of Research on the Selection Interview Since 1964 (Wright Jr., 1969) - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1969.tb00340.x/abstract 

How AI Is Changing Your Job Hunt (Fortune, Alsever, 2017) - http://fortune.com/2017/05/19/ai-changing-jobs-hiring-recruiting/

The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (NYT, Dana, 2017) - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html?_r=0