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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Hudson" data-source="post: 483550" data-attributes="member: 1607"><p>For anybody looking for work in any line of employment, the old phrase 'it is who you know not what you know' that still carries a significant portion of truth. Qualifications and courses are a help, but in a lot of cases they aren't actually the final majority overriding factor when selecting who is taken on to fill a job vacancy. You will often find many generations of families (or wider families, aunts, uncles, cousins etc.), working in the same line of business. As a rough guesstimate it could be 75% who you know and 25% what you know, as often a friend or family member will be employed with a greater allowance for learning on the job. But complete strangers can be given less leeway, and have to start off pulling their weight a bit more, so employees who are an unknown quantity have to bring a bit more experience and an edge over those with just qualifications but no contacts.</p><p></p><p>Doc H. </p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Hudson, post: 483550, member: 1607"] For anybody looking for work in any line of employment, the old phrase 'it is who you know not what you know' that still carries a significant portion of truth. Qualifications and courses are a help, but in a lot of cases they aren't actually the final majority overriding factor when selecting who is taken on to fill a job vacancy. You will often find many generations of families (or wider families, aunts, uncles, cousins etc.), working in the same line of business. As a rough guesstimate it could be 75% who you know and 25% what you know, as often a friend or family member will be employed with a greater allowance for learning on the job. But complete strangers can be given less leeway, and have to start off pulling their weight a bit more, so employees who are an unknown quantity have to bring a bit more experience and an edge over those with just qualifications but no contacts. Doc H. [/QUOTE]
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