Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Brilliant Ideas that will Never Work: Stop Networking!

Attention everyone: stop networking right now! Just stop it! Don't try to make friends unless you're interested in social friendship. Don't try to make contacts who can get you a secret unadvertised job. Apply for and pursue only advertised jobs (although you can accept any unadvertised job that lands in your lap with no effort on your part - I'm not an ogre here!)

If everyone does this, then employers will have to actually advertise their jobs, and the whole employment market will become far more reasonable.

4 comments:

  1. Do I sense some resentment here?

    -Bob

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  2. Professional competence combined with introversion

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  3. Perhaps you can use some of that professional competence to leave the introversion out of your professional life? Best wishes.

    -Bob

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  4. Introversion has to do with the physical "wiring" in one's brain. If you can give me a step by step procedure on how to use my translation skills to change that on an ad hoc basis, I'm open to suggestions.

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