Networking with people seems very similar to networking with, uh, networks. Imagine a general pool of people like you or me who are seeking jobs. These people don’t really know what they’re doing, but they’re capable of meeting people at different events. This pool is like the basic internet/ARPAnet. Now, there are two ways that this pool can be accessed: 1. Either someone from a hiring company can reach out to someone from the job pool or 2. Someone from the applicant pool can reach out to the network that they are seeking to access.

The first case is like a local network reaching out to the overall internet system. While someone from the company is connecting to interact with job applicants in the networking for a job situation, the local network is sending information to the overall network in the computer networking situation. The second case, on the other hand, is the exact opposite, with a job seeker going through the overall internet to connect with the other company, just like how a host/network connects to another network.

But, along the way, both have to go through a recruiter or at least some employee at the company who has access to both the applicant and the company. This is similar to a gateway, which links a network to the overall internet. The gateway acts as a, well, gateway for the network to the internet!

Now, if only this analogizing could get me a real job…

On another note, I was really intrigued by the conversation we had in our seminar about domains and IP addresses. Having built and deployed several websites myself, I was surprised by the complexities and all the different moving parts involved on the back-end. When you’re developing and publishing a website, you only really see what you yourself have constructed, with the rest of the network-side code hidden by your web-host (other than the server-side code that you’ve written yourself).

I’m also very much looking forward to future discussions about economics and privacy!

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