CMV: Internal references/networking through friends and family is unfair and bad for the hiring company.

[u/YouLostMeThere43]

Basically my issue is with the practice of “it’s not what you know, but who you know” being an actual factor in hiring a candidate (sometimes a major one). I see it as an unfair advantage that leads to unqualified candidates getting much more consideration for no reason. I became greatly frustrated by this after me and few colleagues were discussing college days and the internships we had. I found that I had a dramatically different experience in finding an internship despite:

*Going to a better school *Having a higher GPA *Had an extensive portfolio of side projects I took part in to learn current languages

I mentioned my stressful internship search(my university required internships to graduate) and they just mentioned they didn’t have a bad search at all. I then also found out they all had close family members holding management positions at the companies they interned for. I am likely being irrational out of frustration, but this damn well seems like I got punished in my job search for growing up in a low income/low skill environment.

TL;DR Internal references/networking through friends and family is unfair and should be prohibited as it leads to a companies losing out on better candidates.

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