Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
June 10, 2026 | Live Webinar
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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Remember the cliche “It’s who you know, not what you know”? It was true two decades ago, and it’s still true today. You could be the smartest, funniest, most talented person on the planet--a veritable godsend to any employer--but if you’re a disconnected loner, you’re not going to get very far.
For big project corporate and government PMs and power-wielding CTOs, CIOs and engineers, it’s a fact of modern life that has been driven home repeatedly by surveys, white papers and research studies.
A recently released survey by Hudson, a Washington, D.C., staffing company, said that networking was the most common way workers and managers alike secured their jobs. Managers overwhelmingly considered familiar resources, such as employees and personal contacts, to be the ideal source for job candidates.
A few of Hudson’s findings:
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When conducting job searches, 73 percent of managers said that their company typically looks at the current employee base first before considering any other candidates.
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Forty percent of managers said that internal promotions were the best way to fill an opening, followed by employee referrals and personal recommendations (24 percent and 20 percent, respectively).
There is no need to run through all of Hudson’s numbers, because …
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