Invisible hand is a concept explicitly invented to explain away the contradictions of the "Free market" and it's for the people who lack class consciousness.

Like let's say we have a group of 10 friends and they all come up with 1 business idea. 1 of those ideas remains open after few years and 9 of them fail. Why? "Invisible hand"

Even if you network under "free market" there's still the underlying class interests. Relationships usually do not form cross-class because of those underlying class interests. I can be a Homeless person with 9/10 Charisma and still end up on the streets.

To a libertarian the explanation is simple: "Invisible Hand" that's why. Or it's corruption.

But you can't incentivize equality because it would "Make people lazy" all you can do is have a state guard the Capital and let the "invisible hand" sort it out.

I think you make a good point and I would further add that part of what this is getting into is that advice for jobs under capitalism has to be somewhat bullshit because capitalism is not actually built to employ everyone who wants/needs a job. It instead has artificial scarcity and a reserve labor force (I believe is the term?), which pits the working class against each other and toward scrabbling for survival.

As to the specifics of what works best, my perception of it from observation would be that it goes something like this, with the top being the strongest toward getting you a job and bottom being the weakest:

• High level connections (e.g. nepotism type stuff where the connection is so powerful it overrides other priorities of an institution)
• Average connections and proven skill (like from job history)
• Average connections without proven skill
• Skill without connections (on occasion, this one may win out if it's a really specialized field with few people who have the technical skill, e.g. where demand is so high and the quality of the work so important that they'll take most anyone as long as they can do the work)

Not "coming with" connections, such as from family or friends of family, and not being skilled at confidently reaching out to others and maintaining social ties (even if transactional ones), is probably one of the worst positions you can be in for employment under capitalism. There are other factors that can make it even worse like belonging to a marginalized group, but either way, capitalism is not in the business of humane policy surrounding work and labor, so the best you'll see under it is reforms and welfare stuff.