Getting a job via career-oriented social networking sites: The weakness of ties

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2016-March, Issue , 2016, Pages 2156-2165

  Buettner, Ricardo ^a  

^a FOM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

JOB SEARCH; NUMBER OF CONTACTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84975526242     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.272     Document Type: Conference Paper

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