Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today / Ilana Gershon.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gershon, Ilana (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Since 2009
Job hunting > United States.
Employee selection > United States.
Online social networks in business > United States.
Industrial relations > United States.
Economic history.
Employee selection.
Industrial relations.
Job hunting.
Online social networks in business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Job Hunting.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Human Resources & Personnel Management.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History.
United States > Economic conditions > 2009-
United States.
Physical Description:xii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • A book about advice, not an advice book
  • 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
  • We wanted a labor force but human beings came instead.