Influence of Ways to Find Work for Wages and Job Satisfaction (on the Example of Self-employed Professionals)

It has been 40 years since the publication of the book by Mark Granovetter “Getting A Job”. The results of the research which are being presented in it show that social connections tend to play an important role in job-search practices. This study this study was to become the basis of his concept of embeddedness, which is formulated in his article "Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness", which is the most cited work in the field of sociology and economic sociology. But we can’t question the fact that strict embenddedness of social networks in everything that implies interactions between people exists in our life and has a huge impact on the processes happening.Development of information technologies, such as computers, Internet, mobile communication systems and other, has led to the fact that nowadays it is easier to get information about job vacancies, which has led to the drastic changes in the process of finding and getting a job, due to the convenience of information-searching process. The development of the Internet and special platforms, that allow online job-searching, that have moved the labor market from special institutions in real life, to the Internet.So we can see that the online way of searching the job has been gradually substituting the “traditional” method. However, even if it can be viewed as a rival to the old job-search methods can it be considered as an antagonist to the social ties? Does the development of the Internet, which is believed to develop mediated human interactions and information spreading between different people all over the world, can, actually destroy the role of social capital in our lives and, as one of the examples, that can display the influence of social connections is the labor market. As it can be easily seen the problem, that is going to be viewed in this study, arises from the new “automatized” in a certain way job-searching mechanisms, which possibly can cause drastic changes in this practice and lower the influence of social ties in this field. This gets us to the purpose of this study. The intent of this study is to perform an explarotary analysis of the role of social connections ( week and strong ties) in a job-search practice. One reasonable hypothesis of this study is that social ties are still powerful, because they are strongly embended in every form of human interactions and job-seeking is one of the forms of these interactions.