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Loading... Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today (edition 2017)by Ilana Gershon (Author)Rather than giving advice, this narrative is about the advice given; it looks, from an anthropologist’s point of view, at employment in the workplace of America’s corporate world. If resumes and interviews don’t provide the information needed to make well-informed hiring decisions, what options are available to the job seeker? Are all prospective employees equal players in the employment game? What happens when the advice benefits the company more than the job applicant? What skills do you need? Should you specialize or become a jack-of-all-trades? Or should you focus on what services you can offer to the company? Do you think of yourself as a business? Being hired seems to be a complicated process, one with no singular right or wrong way in the approach. Everyone may complete the same standardized form, but everyone must also find a way within the confines of that standardization to show their own distinctiveness. With the Internet advertising available positions and the ease of online applications, job seekers should be aware that the hiring manager might not ever see their applications. So how do those seeking employment make certain the right people in the company notice their applications? Is networking truly the most reliable tool for being hired? Should job seekers consider such options as developing their own personal brand in order to sell themselves to their prospective employers? And just what constitutes a good employer/employee relationship? Explore the benefits and handicaps of tools such as LinkedIn; consider endorsements and recommendations. Examine second-order information, how you present yourself on Facebook, and whether or not your profile picture represents you in the best light possible. In today’s world where hiring practices often mean more than just the application form and interview, job seekers must also consider social media, personal qualities, what happens when they get the job, when a job is simply a stepping-stone, and how leaving a company may have become the new normal in today’s job market. At a time when so many people are finding themselves unemployed, there’s much to consider in this informative and timely review of hiring trends and practices. Chapter notes and an extensive bibliography are included following the narrative. |
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If resumes and interviews don’t provide the information needed to make well-informed hiring decisions, what options are available to the job seeker? Are all prospective employees equal players in the employment game? What happens when the advice benefits the company more than the job applicant?
What skills do you need? Should you specialize or become a jack-of-all-trades? Or should you focus on what services you can offer to the company? Do you think of yourself as a business?
Being hired seems to be a complicated process, one with no singular right or wrong way in the approach. Everyone may complete the same standardized form, but everyone must also find a way within the confines of that standardization to show their own distinctiveness.
With the Internet advertising available positions and the ease of online applications, job seekers should be aware that the hiring manager might not ever see their applications. So how do those seeking employment make certain the right people in the company notice their applications? Is networking truly the most reliable tool for being hired? Should job seekers consider such options as developing their own personal brand in order to sell themselves to their prospective employers? And just what constitutes a good employer/employee relationship?
Explore the benefits and handicaps of tools such as LinkedIn; consider endorsements and recommendations. Examine second-order information, how you present yourself on Facebook, and whether or not your profile picture represents you in the best light possible.
In today’s world where hiring practices often mean more than just the application form and interview, job seekers must also consider social media, personal qualities, what happens when they get the job, when a job is simply a stepping-stone, and how leaving a company may have become the new normal in today’s job market.
At a time when so many people are finding themselves unemployed, there’s much to consider in this informative and timely review of hiring trends and practices.
Chapter notes and an extensive bibliography are included following the narrative. ( )