“…Miller and Jablin (1991) identified five such informationseeking strategies: overt, indirect, third party, testing, and observing. Although these strategies are used primarily by organizational newcomers (Miller, 1996;Teboul, 1994Teboul, , 1995, they are also used by undergraduate and graduate college students (Myers, 1998a;Myers & Knox, 2001). The overt strategy is the only strategy that involves direct interaction between two individuals (Ashford & Cummings, 1983;Miller & Jablin, 1991).…”