Whistleblowers in government allege that due to lack of border enforcement, children who cross the US border illegally are targeted by Mexican drug cartels, abused, and sold for cheap labor. The New York Times wrote stories about some of them.
Despite tens of thousands of these children going missing under Biden’s term, one Whistleblower reported that she and other DHS agents were being pulled off of their cases investigating child trafficking to instead make sandwiches.
Congressman Josh Hawley asked the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, about this.
Less than one week into a new administration, and already Tom Homan, White House Border Czar, reports they have found tens of thousands of the children that went missing under Biden.
What a difference a change in leadership can make.
Due to automation, companies receive far more applications than they can reasonably consider.
Therefore, they employ further automation to narrow their search to a smaller pool of candidates.
This results in job seekers needing to submit many more applications to have a chance at being selected for an interview.
Most job seekers report submitting over 1,000 job applications before landing a job, even if they are highly qualified.
The second commenter here is mad about the outcome, but his analogy is appropriate: Tinder gives more options to females to select or reject men. LinkedIn gives employers more options to select or reject workers.
The result of Tinder is that the top 10% of men get 90% of the women. They benefit the most. Therefore, to benefit from LinkedIn, one must aim to be among the 10% most “attractive” candidates.
As the top commenter notes, skills and experience are not enough to get a job. One must also network to become connected socially with one of the decision makers at the company.
Paradoxically, despite the abundance of objective metrics for selecting ideal candidates (or perhaps because of them), getting selected for a job seems to depend most on who you know.
Rather than be spiteful about this fact, it is worth understanding how it comes to be the reality in order to work with it. One comparison to make is that females of all species generally select males with characteristics that prove strength (think muscles) and ability (think wasteful spending). The LinkedIn counterparts to these things would be the recommendation of someone we know and trust. Submitting a resume is low-effort. Getting a verbal recommendation is high-effort (muscles).
The bottom line is that it is going to take a lot more energy to get selected for a job than it used to. One alternative is to become an employer and take advantage of the abundant labor pool by hiring others instead of seeking employment one’s self. Either that, or adjust to the reality that global competition is increasing, and it is up to you to figure out how to position yourself in the most attractive light to win over prospective employers: going above and beyond in all categories, education, certifications, experience, and networking.
