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particularly ones offering jobs worth half a damn, have maybe a rough
handful of slots to fill, and a metric fuckton of resumes to sift
through. Even the best resume - and there will be a LOT of shitty
ones - is little more than a bunch of words on a single sheet of paper.
Maybe two or three if you're obnoxious. Do you know what happens to
people who "transferred schools with a three month gap between studies
in the middle of the spring semester"? Pfft. Next. I think I'll take
"got a normal diploma with no hiccups" instead. They're just
papers. They can be tossed aside like common garbage. At best, they get
you an interview. At worst, nothing. Now, let's add a little
networking. What if, say, my dad works at the company who needs a kid
to, I dunno, file peoples' documents alphanumerically because the whole
business is run by old retarded people who don't know what computers are
and I'll take it for twelve bucks an hour so I can figure out what they
really do at the company and outperform the worthless balding hacks
obviously enough to replace them? What do you think my chances of
getting a phone call or interview would have been if I didn't have that
networking connection conveniently on the inside? That's how it
works. Yeah, they teach you in school that everything's supposed to be
merit based, but networking is the oldest way humanity has conducted any
sort of business, and idealism can't really change that. If for
no other reason than that our monkey brains weren't evolved to read
through piles of resumes.