9 industries where networking can help you land a job

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If you want to make it in show business, you need to know people.

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Networking isn't everyone's cup of tea.

But if you want to make it in certain fields, you'd better believe that you'll need connections.

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LinkedIn recently released a report breaking down the industries that require quite a lot of networking.

From October 2016 to December 2016, the career site collected data on all of the site's global users who started at a new company during those months.

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Any new hire who was connected on LinkedIn with at least one current employee of the company at least six months before their start date was counted as having used their network to snag a new job.

Here are the industries where you are more likely to need a good network to get ahead: