intro⌗

Jobs are one of the oldest concepts in human and animals civilization, spanning millions of years to when dinosaurs existed, jobs are necessary for daily function of groups.

The idea is simple: Each person in a group has a specific set of responsibilities that they must be fulfill. Today’s version of jobs still remains the same but with one added bonus: Currency.

People use currency to exchange favors or physical times between each other because currency holds value. Jobs have adapted to the idea of currency by making each member get a certain amount of currency for their responsibilities.

Essentially, the more indispensable you are, the more currency you have in a group. Currency isn’t necessarily money, it could be other favors or leverage in future negotations.

Paradoxically, the more currency you get, the more serendipty you gain in acquiring more responsibility. It’s a general rule with some rounded corners but overall it applies.

job proposals⌗

Job Proposals use this idea of responsbilities to evaluate whether a proposal is up to par or not. However, there exists a problem with modern job proposals and that is lack of verification.

It is a strange idea: Our modern civilization are extremely good at some things and extremely bad at others. Verification of a job seeker’s eligiblity is a thing we are notoriously bad at.

Simply put, there is no efficient way of evaluating if a person is eligible for a job or not. What most job requesters do is take a short look at the amount of job seekers they have, become baffled at the amount of work they have to do and surrender to that pressure by taking tons of shortcuts in their hiring process.

These shortcuts include:

  • Hiring a job seeker based off of qualities outside their designated responsibilities
  • Take very little to no time evaluating whether a job seeker is qualified
  • Running little to no background checks on the job seeker
  • Preferring convention over novelty

The situation that most of these job proposers is quite hard to deal with. They’re usually tasked with hiring a new person for a job they don’t have intimate knowledge about while dealing with an immense amount of requests that they have to read through and process.

So their resort is to use certificates as a mean of verification.

Of course they are good for the job, look at how many shiny certificates they have !!!

That already narrows down the amount of people that they can hire to almost 30% but job proposers will see this as a good sign.

Okay, we filtered out the bad apples. Now, it’s time to contact the real players!

While it seems efficient, it’s not at all. What if these people lied in their resumes about their certificates? What if their resumes are full of lies… What if they got the certificates but through paying someone off?

Or, more realistically, what if they do not maintain their professional skills. I mean, it’s quite easy to forget about something you spent years studying, just take a look at school or language students.

adapting to your situation⌗

As a job seeker, it is your responsibility to adapt to these shortcomings that job proposers go through. Never, and I repeat, never ask for the job proposers to change. They’ll never listen.

Not because your argument isn’t valid; nor because it’s hard to, but because it’s not their job in the first place. Very few people are passionate about hiring others and it’s usually done as a side gig(i.e a techlead hiring a new software engineer).

Don’t forget: These people are forced to hire new people and they are bound by a deadline.

It’s extremely inefficient to ask them to change; so you must adapt!

how to adapt⌗

Well, you could start by collecting more certifications. That’d be a sure way of getting you noticed.

Seriously, get your certification game up.

If not certifications then a portfolio that shines when compared to others. Showcase your work. Be proud of it.

After you get your chance to be noticed, work on having an unique but competent impression. Presentation is everything in this case, you cannot seem off not for a second or two. presentation, Presentation, PRESENTION!!!

This means focusing on how formal your dress is, how clear your skin is, how sharp your haircut looks and what impression your accessories give you. Don’t over-do presentation as it can give off the impression that you’re covering something up, however, you cannot go wrong with applying more effort just not obsessing over them.

Presentation not only applies to physical meetings but digital impressions as well such as an online portfolio.

Never think about appealing to proposers’ tastes or what would please them, instead focus on expressing your uniqueness through it. Your presentation is a canvas and your skills alongside your personality are the brush and colors used to paint the beautiful scenary

hard mode: invitation only…⌗

This type of job I love. It’s the type of job that pays extremely handsomely, requires constant challenge, values your creativity and is the hardest to get.

What am I talking about? Well, consider the way normal people apply to jobs. They hear about the job through a medium, they send out an impression to the job proposer and lastly they anxiously wait for responses, trying to avoid the depressing ’no’ that is eventually going to hit him.

But, what if you remove the job proposal medium? How can you apply then?

Well, you can start by using everything I mentioned without counting on it. You focus on the job, the people in charge, the atmosphere, and most importantly your intutition.

Invitation-only jobs are the most rewarding in my opinion because they annihilate self-blame. If you get them, you deserve it. If you don’t, it wasn’t worth it.

Usually, when people reach this stage, it’s because of a huge amount of experience that they have, they have knowledge to know where the most amount of currency & fun are and they are actively working towards them. Failure to them isn’t anything but a motivator to either: Spice up their job seeking skills or start something from nothing and challenge the ones they used to look up to.

a rebuttal to disheartened souls⌗

Many see jobs are inheritenly ugly and money being the root of all evil. Technically they aren’t wrong but there isn’t an alternative for the old process of doing things. Disheartened souls, in my opinion, have as much right to eat, drink and enjoy a good life as the rest of us.

Instead of fighting against this system that everybody agrees on, why not adapt to it? Why not become motivated and excited about how you can adapt to how bad your situation is.

Remember that the best type of pleasure is achieving what you want despite the amount of things not going your way.

I’ll leave you with this lovely quote that best describe not only job proposals but other avenues aswell:

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt