- Sinan Aral – Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
In 1973 sociologist Mark Granovetter demonstrated that job seekers benefited more from their “weak ties”—acquaintances and familiar strangers—than from their strong ties with close friends and colleagues. Now, 50 years later, a new research project on weak ties and job seekers has been completed involving 20 million people worldwide, 2 billion ties and 600,000 job changes. Find out what this new research means for the growing mismatch between today’s job seekers and hiring managers.