job searching is changing and I don't like it
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Toronto, 2003.01.12
One of my job leads is dead, and it died in a way that I've had to get used to in this shiney new decade with no name. The 'respond to a job posting, get called in for an interview, and never hear from the people ever again' method. In the old days, you could usually count on hearing about a job on day zero, and actually be sitting in your new cube by day two, and if you didn't commit to a job during the interview it'd go to someone else. Nowadays, it's hard to even get an interview, and people don't have to return the courtesy of following up on someone who came in to see them. It's funny that human behaviour never finds the middle ground.