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Future of Job Search: Episode 2
January 25th, 2008
The world in the year 2100 is a busy place. Work and jobs happen at a continuous sprint. Most people have a series of global networks to find jobs, advertise for jobs, and work globally. The office is wherever you are. Even manufacturing isn’t a ‘factory’ scenario any more. Things are assembled, not built on location. It saves time and space, and enormous amounts of money.
Johnny’s day starts with hitting his interface, a personal communicator and media device the size of a CD. It has a cursor he can move by just pointing with a finger, and links to a standardized media screen on the wall. As breakfast disappears, he scans his ‘priority’ comm., which is a self edited version of his various contacts. Of 124 contacts this morning, priority comm. contains only three, and they can wait.
Patiently, he checks the main comm. list, and finds a couple of escapees from his priority list. One is a job in Brazil, a very good gig if he can get it, doing data management. Brazil is a hot thing to have on CVs, being a major global hub for IT and emerging technology.
Breakfast forgotten, he assembles his application. There’s the Virtual CV, which contains his referees, an award ceremony where he won Data Manager of the Year, some video of him training staff, and other real events. All of this information has to fit the job, and he won’t get anywhere with bad formatting, particularly in this job. Then comes his academic record, certificate verification, a covering video, pulling out all the stops.
The application takes an hour, because Johnny double checks his links, media quality, content, and settings. This is a super-competitive position, and culls are made on the basis of mistakes as much as anything else. Johnny averages about three job applications a day.
Breakfast finally consumed, he logs in on one of his current jobs, an IT help desk in Australia. He can do direct applications of fixes to the system, maintenance, backups, diagnoses, and it’s full time work for the three hours a day he’s on shift.
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