[QUOTE=Zapata;942870]: Besides, getting to know someone to for an internal recommendation is not "prostituting" oneself. In case you haven't noticed the real world, many new-hires get hired this way.

Washing someone's car, mowing his lawn and serving him margaritas is getting to know someone? Stupid me I've been paying my gardener, seems he just wanted to be friends.

My comment was tongue-in-cheek, however, getting to know someone for the sole purpose of a job recommendation is called '@ss kissing.' There once was a day when qualifications mattered, but call me old fashioned.