Nobody would argue with the need for some form of concise
presentation to an employer of all relevant skills and education, an
interview.etc. But in Canada and the U.S. a “job-getting-advice-industry” based
on this and related matters has got out of control and is constantly fiddling
with the rules of engagement between employers and job seekers, possibly with
the collusion of certain employers instigating alleged new “needs” and
expectations which job seekers “are now expected” to comply with if they even
want to get an interview.
Other factors continually being introduced - and altered at
whim - involve cut and colour of
business suit, interview technique, “body language”, certain words that should
or should not appear in a resume, endless “advice” over “tailoring” resumes and
cover letters to the particular job being sought, and so on.
Even some employers have been finding all this to be
counter-productive for at least the past 10 years. Reference:-
Some job
candidates getting too slick for interviewers
By VIRGINIA GALT, Globeandmail, Monday, Feb 7, 2005
But still this nonsense continues and some people are
profiting from it at the expense of job seekers.
And
this all serves to generate confusion calculated to “control” people – whose
“reasons” for endless difficulty over getting work “must” ALWAYS be because
there “...is something wrong with them...”, that they “...have the wrong
attitude...”, that they are not accessing the “...hidden job market...” (for
which you “...have to know somebody...”), and so on.
The
other part of this stupid game of charades and image-building involves
persuading people that the lack of jobs (relative to numbers of people looking
for them) is NEVER a problem, and/or that any lack of access to retraining to
acquire certain skills is also NEVER a problem. We don’t need these types of
“glorified door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesmen”, “snake oil” salesmen or
others selling useless “potions” that are being passed off as “...THE solution
to YOUR employment problem...” and such-like, after the fashion of the “quack
doctors” and alchemists of centuries past who were all playing similarly
“convincing” tricks in order to sell their wares.