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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, it helps.  Tell your friend to recommend you to the person doing the hiring.  Don't listen to the idiots on this forum who say it doesn't help--they clearly don't know how reality works.[/quote]

I'm a hiring official at my agency. You don't know how all agencies work.[/quote]

NP.  If you don't think a connection can help at your agency you are naive.  Of course you have to make cert on your own (although I have seen something be reposted when someone didn't make cert, but that had more to do with the HR moron disqualifying obviously qualified candidates).

We get a huge number of applications for our better openings and quite a lot for some not so great openings.  Having someone vouch for you, can definitely help you not get lost in the pile.

[b]This doesn't mean some random person at the agency is going to be able to get his unqualified, or marginally qualified, buddy a job.  But if you are well qualified and someone who the decision maker trusts can provide a recommendation, it certainly can help.[/b][/quote]

And you just said what most of everybody said in direct response to OP's original post, which stated that she has an attenuated connection in the agency whom she thinks works in an unrelated office.  Most people weren't saying it doesn't help, they were saying it doesn't help in OP's situation. [/quote]

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