Hired Or Hazing? The New Job Search Reality
Exploring The Labyrinth of Modern Hiring Practices and Why More Isn’t Always Better!
I knew something was wrong when I realized that I had gone on more job interviews in a month than I had eaten hot meals.
It wasn’t just that my culinary life was in shambles (though it was), but that the modern job market had morphed into a grotesque parody of a cooking show, except with less food and more awkward small talk about my “secret ingredients for success.”
My personal nadir came during interview number twelve for a senior-level operations position at a certain e-commerce giant. You know the one — it shares its name with a rather lengthy river and has probably delivered a package to your door in the last 48 hours.
As I sat in the sterile conference room, facing my interviewer, I had a moment of clarity. The woman across from me, let’s call her… actually, let’s not. I’ve forgotten her name anyway, which is what happens when you’ve met more bureaucratic machines than actual humans in recent memory.
She leaned forward, a glint in her eye that I’ve recognized as the prelude to an absurd interview question, and asked, “If you were a kitchen appliance, which one would you be and why?
