Prior research suggests that social connections, including acquaintances, friends, and family, are valuable in a job search process. In these studies, the size of an average job seeker’s network was much smaller and limited by the available modes of communication and the costs associated with...

"Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters-3rd edition will be revised, updated, and expanded to include new and timely information about recruiting in the information age. This will be specific to utilizing social networking tools as a means of taking control of the job search, as well as expert...

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...