The comfort levels of jobhunting have greatly improved. Very simply, because of the facility of Internet searches, emailing and SMS. Santa has become passé, now that we have hordes of companies wooing us with help in conducting our job hunting for us for a small fee.
All this has made us twice removed from this distasteful business of job hunting.
The Indian jobseeker is developing a serious handicap. There is no feedback. When unsuccessful job hunting becomes a defensive explanation of some third party, when there is no response to an email, or job alerts do not translate into jobs, when your fancy designer resume gets ignored or blasting your resume through the services of job websites gets no hits – the feedback is clouded with ambiguity, or worse, with a distorted perspective.
Most of us can carry on with a stoic apathy, but that is not the solution. Our growing dependence on what we call technology that enables job-hunting by proxy is dangerous. Its like wishing for a genetically perfect designer baby that comes toilet trained – it has not happened yet, but it may in the future…
So, till then, let us get rid of our cataracts and our apathy and grow some wings instead. Because less sweat and more tears is no deal for dehydration anyway!
ISSUE 165 Jobnet magazine
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