Your Network is Your Only Insurance Policy

Last Monday I stated that the future of job hunting is people searching and I received a great reaction to it with over a hundred retweets and twenty-three comments.  The main idea with this concept is that the web has broken hierarchies and connected everyone in disperse networks, so that you can reach employees at companies you want to work for directly, without applying through job boards.  Job boards are becoming ineffective and will be obsolete in the future, while networking becomes the only way to secure a job.  Right now approximately 80% of people get a job through networking and that will be 100% in five years, I predict.

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