"It's not what you know, it's who you know"

Getting onto graduate schemes: why networking is more than sucking up - Graduate scheme insider Hannah Salton was always dubious of networking, until she discovered the power of a coffee and a chat

"It's not what you know, it's who you know" is something I've heard again and again throughout my life, but not something I fully understood the significance of until I joined the world of work. I don't know about you but until relatively recently, whenever I heard the word networking, it conjured up a not so pleasant image of a suave but slimy person sucking up to a senior manager, getting to know him or her simply in the hope that one day he might bag himself a job or promotion. It wasn't an image I wanted to emulate... read more

Guardian
Jan 11