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Networking is an essential part of career advancement in business today, but should it be?
-Links for the Curious-
Networking, Corruption, and Subversion (Ned Dobos, 2015) - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2771599
A general summary by Dobos on his paper - http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/just-what-are-you-trying-to-pull-20130928-2ul2m.html
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians (Goldin & Rouse, 1997) - nber.org/papers/w5903
Do informal contacts increase labor market inequality? Social ties, job access and wages for the unemployed (Oesch & von Ow, 2015) - https://www.lives-nccr.ch/sites/default/files/pdf/publication/38_lives_wp_oesch_informalcontacts_ip4.pdf
The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes (Granovetter, 2005) - https://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/Reference%20Media/Granovetter_2005_Social%20Networks.pdf
Sifting and Sorting: Personal Contacts and Hiring in a Retail Bank (Fernandez & Weinberg, 1997) - jstor.org/stable/2657345?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends (WSJ, Christopher Ingraham, 2014) - washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends
Manager Race and the Race of New Hires (Giuliano, Levine, & Leonard, 2006) - http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2006/Manager-Race-and-the-Race-of-New-Hires.pdf
Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity (BLS Reports, 2012) - bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/race_ethnicity_2012.pdf
41 CFR 60-300.5 - Equal opportunity clause (Via Cornell Law School) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/41/60-300.5
Structured Interviewing: Avoiding Selection Problems (Pursell, Camplon, & Gaylord, 1980) - http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/campionm/Structured_Interviewing_Avoiding.pdf
Summary of Research on the Selection Interview Since 1964 (Wright Jr., 1969) - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1969.tb00340.x/abstract
How AI Is Changing Your Job Hunt (Fortune, Alsever, 2017) - fortune.com/2017/05/19/ai-changing-jobs-hiring-recruiting
The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (NYT, Dana, 2017) - nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html?_r=0
Networking is an essential part of career advancement in business today, but should it be?
-Links for the Curious-
Networking, Corruption, and Subversion (Ned Dobos, 2015) - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2771599
A general summary by Dobos on his paper - http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/just-what-are-you-trying-to-pull-20130928-2ul2m.html
Orchestrating Impartiality: The Impact of "Blind" Auditions on Female Musicians (Goldin & Rouse, 1997) - nber.org/papers/w5903
Do informal contacts increase labor market inequality? Social ties, job access and wages for the unemployed (Oesch & von Ow, 2015) - https://www.lives-nccr.ch/sites/default/files/pdf/publication/38_lives_wp_oesch_informalcontacts_ip4.pdf
The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes (Granovetter, 2005) - https://web.stanford.edu/group/scspi/_media/pdf/Reference%20Media/Granovetter_2005_Social%20Networks.pdf
Sifting and Sorting: Personal Contacts and Hiring in a Retail Bank (Fernandez & Weinberg, 1997) - jstor.org/stable/2657345?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends (WSJ, Christopher Ingraham, 2014) - washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three-quarters-of-whites-dont-have-any-non-white-friends
Manager Race and the Race of New Hires (Giuliano, Levine, & Leonard, 2006) - http://irle.berkeley.edu/files/2006/Manager-Race-and-the-Race-of-New-Hires.pdf
Labor Force Characteristics by Race and Ethnicity (BLS Reports, 2012) - bls.gov/opub/reports/race-and-ethnicity/archive/race_ethnicity_2012.pdf
41 CFR 60-300.5 - Equal opportunity clause (Via Cornell Law School) - https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/41/60-300.5
Structured Interviewing: Avoiding Selection Problems (Pursell, Camplon, & Gaylord, 1980) - http://www.krannert.purdue.edu/faculty/campionm/Structured_Interviewing_Avoiding.pdf
Summary of Research on the Selection Interview Since 1964 (Wright Jr., 1969) - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1969.tb00340.x/abstract
How AI Is Changing Your Job Hunt (Fortune, Alsever, 2017) - fortune.com/2017/05/19/ai-changing-jobs-hiring-recruiting
The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (NYT, Dana, 2017) - nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html?_r=0










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- Links for the Curious -
The reference class problem is your problem too (Hajek, 2007) - http://joelvelasco.net/teaching/3865/hajek%20-the%20reference%20class%20problem.pdf
The Logic of Chance by John Venn - http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57359/57359-h/57359-h.htm
Is it a Crime to Belong to a Reference Class? (Colyvan et al, 2001) - http://colyvan.com/papers/shonubi.pdf
United States v. Shonubi [Shonubi III] United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 1995 895 F.Supp 460 I - https://sociologicalgobbledygook.com/shonubi.pdf
All models are wrong… (Wit et al, 2012) - https://www.rug.nl/research/portal/files/13270992/2012StatistNeerlWit.pdf
The reference class problem and its implications for project management - https://eight2late.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/the-reference-class-problem-and-its-implications-for-project-management/
Four approaches to the reference class problem (Wallman & Williamson, 2015) - https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/jonw/files/2015/01/RCP.pdf
Symmetry is the Very Guide to Life (Hajek, 2007) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.318.2402&rep=rep1&type=pdf 189. The Reference Class Problem | THUNK](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vFS66BK9fRQ/mqdefault.jpg)