A Real Jobs Plan(incube.us) |
A Real Jobs Plan(incube.us) |
1. Employer has an internal Recruiter or recruitment team that posts jobs on website / monster. And/or Employer outsources hiring to Recruitment companies.
2. Potential Employee submits resume on website or the outsource Recruitment company actively searches for employees.
3. There is virtually no "Automated service that randomly picks for an interview". This is handled either by Recruitment companies who are in close contact with employeers about their needs for the job position, or the internal recruiter that also knows the specifics of what's required.
4. A pool of possible candidates are interviewed, and the person that best passes the interview (also possible tests) and has all the job requirements, gets the job.
So I think you're giving far too much credit here to personal contacts. Also, the hustle plan is really just what I think most applicants that end up getting the job do anyway, but of course it depends on the position. For Design areas and Web or even marketing it can make sense to have demo reels, videos, etc. But for bioenineering or accounting, you really just need a list of projects, references, skills i.e. your traditional resume.
I'd be interested to see another "job plan" maybe you have some ideas, based on this critique?
As it relates to tech, this means enabling people to apply technology to leverage their current skillset; from manufacturing jobs to the arts.
As it relates to entrepreneurship, this means investing in programs that encourage entrepreneurship - of any industry - throughout country. YC is an efficient model for entrepreneurship in tech. In the beer industry, the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program (http://btad.samueladams.com/) is another good model because it offers a variety of resources and levels of assistance.
If you get more people to follow the strategy outlined in the article, then they might have an advantage over other job seekers, and then this means that the composition of the workforce and the unemployed changes. However, no new jobs are created that way.
Micro-economic approaches to mass unemployment have been touted by some economists for a long time, and have been and are still being implemented all over the world. They just don't work in a satisfying way.