{"id":1032998,"date":"2026-09-03T09:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032998"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:27:28","slug":"83-of-gen-z-professionals-in-india-hesitant-to-network-missing-hiring-advantage-linkedin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/83-of-gen-z-professionals-in-india-hesitant-to-network-missing-hiring-advantage-linkedin\/","title":{"rendered":"83% of Gen Z professionals in India hesitant to network, missing hiring advantage: LinkedIn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): As many as 83 per cent of Gen Z professionals in India are hesitant to network despite recognising the importance of professional relationships, potentially missing out on a hiring advantage, with LinkedIn data showing job applicants with an inside connection are nearly 8.5 times more likely to get hired than those without one. <\/p>\n<p>According to a press release by LinkedIn, 79 per cent of Indian Gen Z professionals understand the importance of professional relationships, but 52 per cent do not know how to start building them, while 53 per cent struggle to turn contacts into meaningful connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI): As many as 83 per cent of Gen Z professionals in India are hesitant to network despite recognising the importance of professional relationships, potentially missing out on a hiring advantage, with LinkedIn data showing job applicants with an inside connection are nearly 8.5 times more likely to get hired than those without one. According to a press release by LinkedIn, 79 per cent of Indian Gen Z professionals understand the importance of professional relationships, but 52 per cent do not know how to start building them, while 53 per cent struggle to turn contacts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033004,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032998\/revisions\/1033004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}