The Resource Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today, Ilana Gershon
Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today, Ilana Gershon
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- Summary
- Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd 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, it's complicated. If you want to have a shot at a good job, you need to have a robust profile on LinkedIn. 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 today's economy, you can't 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. That's a radical transformation in how we think about work and employment, says Ilana Gershon. 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 289 pages
- Contents
-
- Preface: a book about advice, not an advice book
- Introduction: the company you keep
- You are just like Coca-Cola: selling your self through personal branding
- Being generic
- and not
- in the right way
- Getting off the screen and into networks
- Didn't we meet on LinkedIn?
- Changing the technological infrastructure of hiring
- The decision makers: what it means to be a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR person
- When moving on is the new normal
- Conclusion: we wanted a labor force but human beings came instead
- Isbn
- 9780226452142
- Label
- Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today
- Title
- Down and out in the new economy
- Title remainder
- how people find (or don't find) work today
- Statement of responsibility
- Ilana Gershon
- Subject
-
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management
- Beschäftigungsfähigkeit
- Economic history
- Employee selection
- Employee selection -- United States
- Industrial relations
- Industrial relations -- United States
- Job hunting
- Job hunting -- United States
- Neoliberalismus
- Online social networks in business
- Arbeitsmarkt
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology
- Selbstmanagement
- Since 2009
- Stellensuche
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- Wandel
- Online social networks in business -- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Job Hunting
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd 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, it's complicated. If you want to have a shot at a good job, you need to have a robust profile on LinkedIn. 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 today's economy, you can't 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. That's a radical transformation in how we think about work and employment, says Ilana Gershon. 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
- Cataloging source
- ICU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gershon, Ilana
- Dewey number
- 650.140973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF5382.75.U6
- LC item number
- G465 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- Job hunting
- Employee selection
- Online social networks in business
- Industrial relations
- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Job Hunting
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
- Arbeitsmarkt
- Stellensuche
- Beschäftigungsfähigkeit
- Selbstmanagement
- Wandel
- Neoliberalismus
- Economic history
- Employee selection
- Industrial relations
- Job hunting
- Online social networks in business
- United States
- Label
- Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today, Ilana Gershon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: a book about advice, not an advice book -- Introduction: the company you keep -- You are just like Coca-Cola: selling your self through personal branding -- Being generic -- and not -- in the right way -- Getting off the screen and into networks -- Didn't we meet on LinkedIn? -- Changing the technological infrastructure of hiring -- The decision makers: what it means to be a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR person -- When moving on is the new normal -- Conclusion: we wanted a labor force but human beings came instead
- Control code
- ocn958781127
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226452142
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016040351
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40027047200
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780226452142
- (OCoLC)958781127
- Label
- Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today, Ilana Gershon
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Preface: a book about advice, not an advice book -- Introduction: the company you keep -- You are just like Coca-Cola: selling your self through personal branding -- Being generic -- and not -- in the right way -- Getting off the screen and into networks -- Didn't we meet on LinkedIn? -- Changing the technological infrastructure of hiring -- The decision makers: what it means to be a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR person -- When moving on is the new normal -- Conclusion: we wanted a labor force but human beings came instead
- Control code
- ocn958781127
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xii, 289 pages
- Isbn
- 9780226452142
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016040351
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40027047200
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780226452142
- (OCoLC)958781127
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management
- Beschäftigungsfähigkeit
- Economic history
- Employee selection
- Employee selection -- United States
- Industrial relations
- Industrial relations -- United States
- Job hunting
- Job hunting -- United States
- Neoliberalismus
- Online social networks in business
- Arbeitsmarkt
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology
- Selbstmanagement
- Since 2009
- Stellensuche
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer
- United States
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009-
- Wandel
- Online social networks in business -- United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Job Hunting
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