Being good at your job will only get you so far in a career. As you move up the ladder, social skills become more important to your career. Also, as you get old

Being good at your job will only get you so far in a career. As you move up the ladder, social skills become more important to your career. Also, as you get older you will see that networking will be the primary way to get a job. Being good is not enough all the time. Companies need a job to be done they don't really care that you can build a computer or whatever from scratch or whatever merit you want to name that's outside their needs. If they have X candidates to pick from they will gravitate towards the one that can do the job and the one they have some kind of personal connection with -also known as networking.