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‘It’s so, so normal’ to get a job – and especially a first job – through family connections, states the popular career agony aunt of Ask a Manager. And in a world where 7 in 10 new graduates use family connections to get their first job, she may just be right.
But is this simply a way of life, to be accepted, or it is providing kids from wealthy, well-connected backgrounds with a hugely unfair advantage that should be stamped out immediately? Which industries are most rife with such favouritism, and are there any situations in which it’s completely acceptable? […]The post Keeping It In The family: Who You Know, Not What You Know appeared first on Ms. Career Girl.