How do you convince a ~50 year old that he/she needs to network in addition to applying for jobs to get employed nowadays?

My friend is in the IT Project Management space and it’s been years...

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Give them data on it? Good chapter in “what color is your parachute” which outlines the stats. If they don’t appreciate the depth of reading a book about job applications, you can probably find HBR or other articles.

Why are you trying to convince them?

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Because I care about them and want to see them employed. But there’s only so much I can advise and council. The rest is in their hands.

“Nowadays”? This was always true.

and by networking, I mean some of the more nuanced methods today such as reaching out cold via email or LinkedIn

Tell them stories of how you’ve seen people get jobs recently?
Ask them to reflect on people they’ve seen get jobs recently?
Use your network to get them intros?

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