Over the last 3 - 4 years of on-and-off job searching, I've always had this biased perception of work experience, in the sense that your chances of getting a job are heavily influenced by the applicants who apply for said job. Sure, your own competency and abilities are important, but when compared toe-to-toe with any bloke you pull off the streets, would you still stand a chance in this dog-eat-dog industry?
Hence, this rather inaccurate chart was quickly pulled together partly for the purposes of getting a comic out on schedule, but also as a reminder that you'll always lose to industry "soft spots", or those people who have general innate qualities that makes them more appealing to hire in a given context (e.g. bilingual applicants in a customer-facing job).
No comments:
Post a Comment