This is funny but must be soul-destroying! "What's your zone of genius?" Yikes! "KPIs obsessed". No ta. (Thanks to @lucysweet pointing me here via her Note share.)
I'm not on LinkedIn and I'm not sure I could find it, but if it ever comes up near me, I'll find a way to do it. LOL (and I'm actually ridiculously busy right now, with less than fun things as well as very fun things.)
but I'll gift the idea to anyone who wants to do it and have their 15 minutes of internet fame! take it and run with it!
I'm perhaps too young to say "in my time..." but I do feel a lot has changed since I first got my first job, which basically came at the end of a 3 month-internship that I did as part of my studies. One day I was called to my then boss office and she simply said to me, "we've had the opportunity to observe your work and we believe you're a great fit, so we'd like to know if you're interested in staying with us." That was it. When I was ready to move on to another job the application process was pretty straight forward for most of them: send your CV and explain briefly why you think you'd be a good fit. Luckily no one expected a video of me doing mortal backflips (phew, I would have literally died trying!) to prove that I was interested. I feel sorry for people trying to get into an entry-level position these days. No wonder everyone is trying to make it big on TikTok - if you have to do silly videos you may as well capitalise on them! Expecting anyone who's applying for a voluntary role to submit more than a plain CV is ridiculous.
I worked for a "KPI obsessed" boss who used to tell me her head is full of business not cute lil content ideas like my head
Yikes!!!!!!!
Thank you for making me laugh hard this morning! I'm also applying for jobs and noticing crazy stuff like what you've described - it's mad out there!
Bonkers! Stay strong out there 🫡
This is funny but must be soul-destroying! "What's your zone of genius?" Yikes! "KPIs obsessed". No ta. (Thanks to @lucysweet pointing me here via her Note share.)
remember the lawyer who turned on the cat and couldn't turn it off? the I am not a cat, your honor guy?
I desperately, desperately want to put a cat filter (or maybe unicorn) on and send in a totally bizarre video. like really, really out there.
I'm retired. this could be my new thing. (enough of that they could decide to knock this off.)
a. The video of "I am not a cat" guy was one of the best things that happened during the shutdown.
b. I IMPLORE you to make that job-application video and submit it and report back. We need this. Life is too shot.
I'm not on LinkedIn and I'm not sure I could find it, but if it ever comes up near me, I'll find a way to do it. LOL (and I'm actually ridiculously busy right now, with less than fun things as well as very fun things.)
but I'll gift the idea to anyone who wants to do it and have their 15 minutes of internet fame! take it and run with it!
I'm perhaps too young to say "in my time..." but I do feel a lot has changed since I first got my first job, which basically came at the end of a 3 month-internship that I did as part of my studies. One day I was called to my then boss office and she simply said to me, "we've had the opportunity to observe your work and we believe you're a great fit, so we'd like to know if you're interested in staying with us." That was it. When I was ready to move on to another job the application process was pretty straight forward for most of them: send your CV and explain briefly why you think you'd be a good fit. Luckily no one expected a video of me doing mortal backflips (phew, I would have literally died trying!) to prove that I was interested. I feel sorry for people trying to get into an entry-level position these days. No wonder everyone is trying to make it big on TikTok - if you have to do silly videos you may as well capitalise on them! Expecting anyone who's applying for a voluntary role to submit more than a plain CV is ridiculous.