The three degrees
18 April 2008 | Steve Bagshaw
In our up coming career development supplement Anton Roe, director at recruitment consultants Matchtech says there is only three degrees of separation between people in procurement.
The idea being that you know a buyer, who knows a buyer, who knows you.
Have you ever experienced this?
Or could buyers do more to network?
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I found this at the last branch event I went to. One of the other attendees was complaining that her name badge still showed NHS PASA, rather than her new place of work. I started up with “I met someone on my distance learning course, hundreds of miles away who used to work there too” and lo and behold, they used to work together.
And haven’t revisited the nightmare by speaking to each other since…I would imagine…