Searching For Jobs: Bots VS Bots
Any human left in the jobosphere?
I’m competent, experienced, with higher education, and fluently speak three languages ( fine, only 2.5 as my Spanish is rusty — feel free to throw the first negative comment if you’ve never embellished your resume). Yet, I’ve now spent months on LinkedIn applying to jobs — including several below my level of competence — , and I’m still unemployed.
This article isn’t a cry-out. I’m resourceful enough to eventually come out of this ditch, one job or the other. Still, this employment hunt is numbing me.
I’m not old, and yet things were so different for my first job search. I was then just 18 and I remember it like yesterday, even though it was actually pre-Y2K. At the time, I had spent three solid days walking around London and after 50,000 steps in and 40 resumes dropped, I had secured my first professional occupation as a waitress.
Did it help that I was a young woman with blue eyes and a cute French accent? Undeniably.
During the tenure of this job, I had to repeatedly decline my manager’s less-than-professional offers while chasing actual rats in the kitchen, but nonetheless, the actual process of the search had been fun.
The job hunting that came in my mid twenties, following my Master’s degree, wasn’t…
