Down and out in the new economy how people find (or don't find) work today
Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was...
| Main Author: | Gershon, Ilana (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: a book about advice, not an advice book
- Introduction: the company you keep
- You are just like Coca-Cola: selling your self through personal branding
- Being generic
- and not
- in the right way
- Getting off the screen and into networks
- Didn't we meet on LinkedIn?
- Changing the technological infrastructure of hiring
- The decision makers: what it means to be a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR person
- When moving on is the new normal
- Conclusion: we wanted a labor force but human beings came instead.