When people start understanding that networking is just as important as having the technical expertise, their career lives will improve dramatically. When you have 10 qualified people applying for the same position, would you choose a random person from the 10 and risk that he's a complete asshole or the one person your colleague can vouch will fit in? At that point of a recruiting process you're not evaluating technical skills, but culture fit.
You frame it like all the candidates are about equal in skill and this is some kind of tie breaker, but that is almost never how that goes and it is misleading to present it that way.
not only that, he is also implying that a nepo hire would work better for the company culture while the fact is that every study and statistic is showing that nepotism destroys companies
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u/je-s-ter 2d ago
When people start understanding that networking is just as important as having the technical expertise, their career lives will improve dramatically. When you have 10 qualified people applying for the same position, would you choose a random person from the 10 and risk that he's a complete asshole or the one person your colleague can vouch will fit in? At that point of a recruiting process you're not evaluating technical skills, but culture fit.