Gershon Ilana Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don`t Find) Work Today 9780226452142

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Автор: Gershon Ilana
Название: Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don`t Find) Work Today
Перевод названия: Илана Гершон: Не вписавшиеся в новую экономику. Как люди сегодня находят (или не находят) работу
ISBN: 9780226452142
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Управление персоналом и человеческими ресурсами

ISBN-10: 022645214X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.55 кг.
Дата издания: 10.04.2017
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 4 halftones
Размер: 233 x 159 x 23
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: How people find (or don`t find) work today
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Finding a job used to be simple. Youd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or youd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe youd call the company a week later to check in, but the basic approach was easy. And once you got a job, you would stay--often for decades.

Now . . . well, its complicated. If you want to have a shot at a good job, you need to have a robust profile on LinkdIn. And an enticing personal brand. Or something like that--contemporary how-to books tend to offer contradictory advice. But they agree on one thing: in todays economy, you cant just be an employee looking to get hired--you have to market yourself as a business, one that can help another business achieve its goals.

Thats a radical transformation in how we think about work and employment, says Ilana Gershon. And with Down and Out in the New Economy, she digs deep into that change and what it means, not just for job seekers, but for businesses and our very culture. In telling her story, Gershon covers all parts of the employment spectrum: she interviews hiring managers about how they assess candidates; attends personal branding seminars; talks with managers at companies around the United States to suss out regional differences--like how Silicon Valley firms look askance at the lengthier employment tenures of applicants from the Midwest. And she finds that not everything has changed: though the technological trappings may be glitzier, in a lot of cases, who you know remains more important than what you know.

Throughout, Gershon keeps her eye on bigger questions, interested not in what lessons job-seekers can take--though there are plenty of those here--but on what it means to consider yourself a business. What does that blurring of personal and vocational lives do to our sense of our selves, the economy, our communities? Though its often dressed up in the language of liberation, is this approach actually disempowering workers at the expense of corporations?

Rich in the voices of people deeply involved with all parts of the employment process, Down and Out in the New Economy offers a snapshot of the quest for work today--and a pointed analysis of its larger meaning.

Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don`t Find) Work Today, Gershon Ilana