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don’t confront me with your twisted truth and soft boiled tails of that dame that walked into your office one day with a case and all you cased was her features and the case hancuffed to her insecurities and incensed smoke and the whiskey container and the jar with the remainder and reminder of your remedies for common cases of villainy in our age of anxiety…the ski masked way is greeted with the rise of vigilantism and farcical rhythm … don’t hunt me with imagine iffs and taboos divested in the powers of your creator who created balance and fish and rain and tribes and the smell of fresh cut grass with traces of death retracing the outline of our concept of time don’t draw my imagination on your blood soaked canvas unless you point purple circles of injustice because it is sheer like pink razor blades.. know one to fear it builds character like the smell of yourself tearing away from yesterday’s past-times
In January, Aimee Groth penned a piece for the Business Insider that illuminates her credibility in a manner equivalent to owning a crystal ball or a time machine. Ms. Groth is on the pulse of the reality of the Job Market, and how that translates, in practical terms, for the job seeker. How human beings arrive at the crossroads of preparation and opportunity is forever changing. Just as we are awe struck witnesses and participants in monumental social upheaval, in this fantastic era, humanity should regard new trends in business in much the same manner. More specifically, the Resume is a phenomenon of human social organization; evolving through a democratization of Opportunity, Organizational streamlining, and an exponential increase in task complexity.
The move away from the Resume and the traditional Job description will further democratize opportunity. A plethora of open source technology (i.e., twitter, Wordpress, tumblr, etc.), the internet is a platform for human beings to craft and take ownership of their identity. The modern workplace will be dominated by those who create an online presence that efficiently communicates the job seeker’s skills to a multitude of hiring managers, entrepreneurs, and recruiters. Those who acquire new skills constantly, and communicate them to the right people, will win. Companies that hire on the basis of upcoming projects, rather than job descriptions, will dominate those that thrive by increased profit alone. Organizational leadership needs to focus more on the efficiency of Project completion. The Web-based resume is a precursor to companies’ shift to multi-level project accountability and talent managing employees organizationally to meet project needs. On a Systemic scale,shifting to web-based career development and profile building is an act of evolution. The greater the diversity of workers and skills, the greater the ability to efficiently match the worker to the right work.
In an effort to stream line Business costs, hiring managers have been given the directive of creating Job descriptions with a large Umbrella of responsibilities. As technology has increased the speed at which humans can complete complex tasks, less people are needed in the workforce. The question” how many people does it take to screw in a light bulb?”, has became “the” question. A Single individual can do the work of many with the assistance of technology. However, true progress resides not in how many people it took to complete the task, but in the complexity and scope of task itself. We have been asking the wrong question.
According to the The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 46,000 pieces of plastic cover every square mile of ocean. The size and scope of this problem is astronomical. Yet, in order for life on this planet to survive humanity must create a solution. As business evolves, and as humans have evolved, the tasks we seek increase in difficulty. From Crisis comes evolution or extinction. Currently, Humanity’s greatest challenge is the crisis of efficiency (or lack thereof). Can we be resourceful and abandon the wasteful activities of the past? In order to increase our workload capacity we must increase the efficiency with which we match work to the worker. Imagine a world with search engine that can match skills to projects, and people to their passions (Google much anyone?).
Of course, transition to increased social connection through the internet causes much well reasoned if not logical fear. Images of the Matrix, Mad Max, and the Terminator dance in our heads. Dystopia has become the dominant theme in fiction. Imagined future realities do sometimes come to fruition. However, our musings about the bleakness of the future are tied to our fears about the past. Fear of the past haunts us like ghosts in the machine of progress, and prevents us from decisive action. Much to the contrary, Ms. Groth advocates for a the development of a Job seeker that understands the market, and what it takes to succeed in this brave new world. Her article lights the path forward. In the end it is Ignorance not preparedness that leads us to shackles.
http://www.treehugger.com/culture/poignant-museum-exhibit-illustrates-plastic-catastrophe.html
