You feel like a piece of meat when your coffee date doesn't show up, you don't get an exciting person, and everyone is flaky. You must be looking for a job.
The labor market is where candidates and prospective employers weigh dozens of humans at once and sometimes ghost the rejects, as the dynamics of modern dating move into it. The hiring process online has made dating and interviewing more similar because of the labor shortages. Even though candidates are booking 5 to 10 job interviews in a week, online hiring allows employers to court them aggressively, even if they don't get the job.
It may sound painful for both applicants and hirers, but it turns out that experience on a dating app can be used to land a job. Corissa Peterson, hiring manager at Resume Genius, says that the same things are needed for a first online job interview as they are for a first online date. If your date or interview goes badly, it will be over in an hour, and you will never have to see what happened again.
When the industry was shut down by the Pandemic, Daniel was thrown into the job pool. He says his seven years on dating apps have helped him to quickly decide if an employment opportunity is a good or bad fit. He says that it has taught him how to be pickier and who he would work well with. I never would have thought that dating was good preparation.
Shawn Laib, an insurance writer at AutoInsurance.org, says he was trained to be more assertive by using dating sites. He says he can see potential dealbreakers early on in dating, which is relevant for job hunting. He says you need to ask more questions when you don't trust what's happening.
Dating skills can be used to find a job or recruit for a position. The director of the Bay Area CBT Center says that screening other humans requires us to discern between what people say and do. This process requires one to know their own values and to be able to determine if they align with the person on the screen.
According to Pearl Lemon, head of PR at London-based search engine optimization company, there are three successful practices for hirers navigating a job market that sometimes feels like the dating world. She says she is open and honest because they are also people.
Applying simple laws of attraction is a sure way to find success in hiring, according to the vice president for growth and operations at Coin MarketCap. If you want to be hired or get a new significant other, let's say you want to. If it is clear that you are a catch, then you won't have to chase down what you want.
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