This article talks about the impact of weak ties to the job seekers and recruiters, however, the author only talks about the impact for the recruiters side. There states if a company wants to build a team with talented people, it is more likely for the company to hire people with talent because of the new employee is the bridge to other networks of great people. This is because of the strong readic closure we talked about in lecture. In this network, the relationship between networks is not only friendship, but also the employment relationship, the weak ties still exist between the company and the network of an employee and the weak tie has some effect such that the employee could offer a referral to his or her network so that the company would hire them in the end.
This is interesting because for students who are about to graduate, and after graduation, they have to find jobs. Sending as many as possible resumes to companies is a choice to find a job but this way is not efficient and there is a small chance to get the interview invitation from the company. To know someone who is working or has worked in a company and let him or her provide a reference seems to be a good choice. Although the article does not talk about the impact on the seeker side, but the weak ties do have impact on both ways as the job seeker could be recommended to the company because they can get referrals, and the company is more likely to hire them (weak tie effect) if they do have the skills to meet the requirement.
Reference:
Harper, Everett. “Weak Ties Matter.” TechCrunch. TechCrunch, April 26, 2016. https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/26/weak-ties-matter/.