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		janoulle on Dec 22, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hiring Secret: Best Way to Vet a Candidate One way to thwart this: make your LinkedIn connections visible to you alone. http://min.us/mlinkedinconnections (shared connections are not hidden).

amcintyre on Dec 22, 2011 [–]

Wouldn't that only thwart people that don't collect tons of connections? I wonder how many connections a hiring manager would need in order to have a decent chance of having at least one shared connection with a given candidate.

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