The conversation on networking is skewed. It's really all about the context of the hand-off.

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No one would argue, I'd guess, that the idea of networking is the No. 1 job search strategy out there. The amount of people who get jobs off randomly applying to posts online is fairly low -- you can make an argument that when a company posts a job online, they already know the internal can…