I've been on both sides of the interview desk and I perfectly
sympathise with what you're saying.
Having thought about it a lot, it's not mismatches of needs, lack of
skills, wages or "structural unemployment". It's the fact that the
Internet mediates everything, and the digital world makes other people
ssem unreal.
"Technology is a way of not having to experience the world" - Max Frisch
It's made people afraid and disrespectful of each other.
It creates a cloud-cuckoo la-la land of fantasy and
non-commitment. Despite investing hours into writing the perfect job
descriptions, sifting conscientiously through piles of applications,
the chosen candidates ghosted us or turned out to be liars. Linked-in
was useless pile of rubbish in my opinion.
Finally someone remembered a person we already know who would be a
good fit. We called. They were free. We all went to the pub and 24
hours later [0] they were hired.
Just don't use "The Internet" for anything serious and inter-personal
like that.
[0] we did not spend the whole 24 hours at the pub!
Having thought about it a lot, it's not mismatches of needs, lack of skills, wages or "structural unemployment". It's the fact that the Internet mediates everything, and the digital world makes other people ssem unreal.
"Technology is a way of not having to experience the world" - Max Frisch
It's made people afraid and disrespectful of each other.
It creates a cloud-cuckoo la-la land of fantasy and non-commitment. Despite investing hours into writing the perfect job descriptions, sifting conscientiously through piles of applications, the chosen candidates ghosted us or turned out to be liars. Linked-in was useless pile of rubbish in my opinion.
Finally someone remembered a person we already know who would be a good fit. We called. They were free. We all went to the pub and 24 hours later [0] they were hired.
Just don't use "The Internet" for anything serious and inter-personal like that.
[0] we did not spend the whole 24 hours at the pub!