‘Who you know’ is back. How to network your way to your first job

Dan Richards is a serial founder and former public company CEO, and an award-winning member of the marketing faculty at the Rotman School of Management, where he oversees the credit course associated with MBA student internships.

Talk to recent college and university graduates as I often do and you’ll hear complaints about the job market. Some grads talk about months of hard work without results, sending hundreds of job applications with either curt rejections or no response at all.

That’s backed by Statistics Canada data showing youth unemployment of 14 per cent, up significantly from the recent past. And it’s not just Canada where new grads are facing tough

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