Vitamin B (career)
In everyday language , especially in the professional environment, vitamin B describes the use of personal relationships or acquaintances with potential superiors or colleagues. By accepting these advantages, it is generally understood to get into preferred positions of the personal career and / or to take advantage of competitors from the personal application environment .
In the social sciences, this phenomenon is treated under the term social capital , since Mark Granovetter's influential study Getting a Job has produced extensive literature on it. Among other things, a study by the Institute for Employment Research finds that over 40% of job seekers find a job whose path has been paved through personal acquaintances in advance of the application.
Although many job placements are run through vitamin B , it is sometimes lost sight of the fact that the vast majority of job placements take place through employment agencies or career fairs. Many employers prefer soft skills or other work experience to personal relationships.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark Granovetter (1974): Getting A Job. A Study of Contacts and Careers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., ISBN 978-0-674-35416-6 .
- ↑ Cultivating relationships at work: The vitamin B complex. In: faz.net. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Resume, Vitamin B, Career: The Six Biggest Job Myths. In: rp-online.de. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Job filling mostly through relationships: Vitamin B most often helps - n-tv.de. In: n-tv.de. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .