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No matter what area of human activity it is, everyone loves referrals. A person who is familiar with you decides that someone would appreciate what you have to offer. Everyone's happy, all around. When you're looking for work and a friend of yours says to you that an opening at his company could be just right for you, that's the best kind of referral. The company right away likes this because they know that a person working there wouldn't just bring anyone in, and you have such an inside track on the job because the company haa such a great way of knowing what you like – through the person who referred you. A job referral though isn't a guarantee of a job.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In fact, if you get a job referral and you don't make the best possible use of it, it can be such a disaster. Not only will your friend at the company be embarrassed, you'd be worse off than all the other regular outsiders applying for that job.
 

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