When you are looking for a job it is critical to focus in an area (A vertical, a locality, a role, an organization if it is large) and then map the ecosystem that opportunities you are targeting sit within. Opportunities are governed by personal relationships and those are remarkably local, and folks looking for people to fill vacant roles expect the applicant to understand the world that the hirer is operating in.
Additional Reading
- Proof! Just Six Degrees of Separation Between Us – The Guardian
- The Six Handshakes Rule – DE Econometrist
- Six Degrees of Separation – WhatIs.com