Oh hi, I just have a job-searching rant

[alizarin_nyc]

I look for and at jobs. All the time. I'm looking for work but I don't really believe I'll find it on the job boards or by sending my resume into that black hole... plus a shit-ton of personal information, plus my "previous employment," not apparent I guess, by my resume! Every job app takes hours in this manner - so it's a 1 job/3 hour ratio which

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[blythechild]

Reading that just made me laugh. Why didn't they add the defining qualification of "must also be a grape-flavoured unicorn"? Also, BuzzFeed rarely hires full-time positions - I bet that this job is actually some sort of 4-month contract. Basically, they are looking for Scorsese/Miyazaki/Streep/Zuckerberg/the ENTIRE Google content production team, and they'll only want to pay them $30/hr with no benefits or job security and they'll expect award-winning content to be turned around 24/7.

And every journalism/film student in the continental U.S. will apply for this *facepalm*.

It's like when I do job searches in my field (which is highly specialized) and all of the ads ask that an applicant be "expert" in Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver/HTML coding/After Effects/all Office programs/Quicktime/Flash/mobile app development, and they only want you for 3 months, expect you to work 16 hours a day, and will pay you less than you can make at Starbucks. Western work culture is a fucking joke.

[alizarin_nyc]

OH RIGHT. Must be a team-playing grape-flavored unicorn!

Yep, you're right. They want a 25-year old wunderkid who's been plastering shite all over the YouTubes since a young age and "knows" these programs (enough to be dangerous). No thank you, sir or ma'am or other.

***THIS THIS THIS***

all of the ads ask that an applicant be "expert" in Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver/HTML coding/After Effects/all Office programs/Quicktime/Flash/mobile app development, and they only want you for 3 months, expect you to work 16 hours a day, and will pay you less than you can make at Starbucks. Western work culture is a fucking joke.

There is nothing "highly specialized" about that. It's like they don't even understand what it takes to be proficient AND experience in these programs. CS6 is NOT ONE PROGRAM.

A joke on us, indeed.

[blythechild]

Totally.

I've been working in my field for nearly a decade and have only mastered a half dozen programs that I actually use for my day-to-day projects. I mean, I'm STILL learning things about Photoshop... People (perhaps HR interns with no known experience in anything) assume that graphic design (web or print, no distinction there, right? >:/), animation, photography, multi media, website design, and app development are all just aspects of the same skill set. It's like believing that hiring a proctologist who's read a Dummies Guide to Cardiac Surgery has the necessary, transferable skills. Well, they both work on humans, I guess... People go to school for years to learn font design, or how to effectively code a website, or how to use a steady cam for feature films. I don't know where this disconnect came from that someone can master ALL THE THINGZ by 25 and will apply that vast knowledge for mere peanuts. It's insulting and defeatist.