In this moment of my life, after my MBA, my biggest concern
is to find a good job, a job that I can develop my career and learn with my
colleges. In this situation, a social network analysis will help me to identify
possible people that can help me to find this job.
Indeed, in my personal network there are people working in
different markets and companies, so, my first step is to send a survey to as
many people as I can with important questions to build my network analysis, one
time I select the people I think will be easy to get the information. The
questions are:
· Which company do you work?
·
Which industry do you work?
·
How many years are you working in the same
company?
·
Do you know if the company has opening positions
in the finance area?
·
Do you know if the company has opening positions
in the business development area?
·
Do you know if the company has opening positions
in the strategy area?
·
When do you need to ask information about
something related to your job, which is the person (the position) that you will
ask?
My major interest is in the people that work in the Oil and
Gas or Energy industry and are more than 3 years in the same company. Also, it
is important to know if there are positions in any of these 3 areas and I can
see the level of influence according with the people that these people ask for
help.
After this step, I can relate all the people with similar
answers and see that the person with more connections is the one that has more
similarities with my interests.
Indeed, some measures are going to be important in this
situation, the first one the degree, that means between all nodes the ones that
relate with more people, but I will also see the people that is close to these
important people, so the betweenness and the eigenvector measures will be take
into consideration as well.
Therefore, after I calculate these measures I will select
the people that can help me more and talk to them, send my CV and hopefully I
will have interviews soon.
1 comment:
Everyone wants that job, right? There are a lot of SNA's out there on job-finding, inspired by "The Strength of Weak Ties" article. It's important to understand that what you have here is not really an SNA; it's a survey, with the SNA question we used for the class data grafted onto it. You should rethink this, as it's too generic a question to help you focus on job-hunting. For instance, in addition to how many people they have hired in the last few years. you might ask how many job interviews have they run? How often do they talk to candidates? Last (and probably best,)for recent hires, who were the people they talked to who helped them the most? And you can also use SNA measures more effectively by relating them to the situation, not just listing their definitions.
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