Has Attaining Jobs Become More Dependent on Rhetoric More Than Ever?

   In this day and age, many people say that in order to obtain a successful job one needs a plethora of connections in that field. The lucky ones are born into a family that serves as that connection, but for the ones who have to start from scratch, what is the best way for them to form those connections? These connections seem to be especially important in the present day with many jobs becoming scarcer and scarcer. After spending a few weeks in this class it seems to me that rhetoric may be the best way to go to pursue a career.
   I think that it is fair to say that most individuals who come out of college want to communicate that they need a job. I think what is really important today is how they convey that message. Like I mentioned before, having connections in the field one wants to work for seems to be one of the main reasons why individuals get the jobs they crave. In my opinion it is what provides the ethos in the eyes of the employer. Maybe it is the ethos that is the most desired part of the prospective employee nowadays. In contrast to this, the process of actually getting the connections seems to rely more on pathos. If veterans in their field have a positive emotional attachment to another colleague in the same field with less experience then I feel as though they will be more obliged to assist the less experienced individual to realize their ambitions. Of course in order to achieve this positive emotional response the newcomer will have to prove they are capable of performing well on the job.
   If none of these steps happened then I feel like chances are there is little hope to finding a stellar job. However I could be wrong, and there may be a few other exceptions to this process. So I guess my question is do you think that this is one of the biggest driving factors in the hiring process? Are there other methods in which one can attain their dream job without rhetoric?