In the past the only way to find a job was through your neibourghood your friends and relatives. Those who have a big network were more likely to have better positions in their life. Even living in a rich neibourghood areas was increasing the chance in finding jobs. Families were struggling to send their children to schools in rich neibourghood because after the education period schoolmates were also very important to find a job.Keith Ferrazzi was advising in his famous book “Never Eat Alone” to live even a small room under the roof but in a rich area instead of living in a cottage in a rural area..
Time have passed by, classified advertisements became very popular. An incredible amount of employer were choosing to advertise via newspapers their workforce requirements. Human Resource companies appeared that time. They were following a wider range of data and trying to establish the best match.
Internet and the web gave enormous impetous in making better search in large data bases of job opportunies. Such possibility allowed employer to make a search among CV databases.
Brilliant CV holders were more likely to get better jobs. Famous school graduates were more likely to be employed in better companies with higher salaries. Families were forced to pay destructive amount of tuition fees , students were trying to find loans that will cover school fees.
The technology is now about to change this actual situation. Long longevity of the humans forces us to work longer. In the past working 15 to 20 years were enough to have a pension. Now in most developped countries you need to work until 65. While your working years what you learned at school is becoming obsolete. This is why now we are saying that its time of continous learning period.
I spent quite a long time to learn how to use slide ruler , tigonometry and many other lessons at school . None of them did help to find a beter job or I made use of them in my entire life.
Nowadays incredible amount of lessons are at the internet in various web sites of the universities , private entrepreneurs and charity institutions.
We are not far that all school education will be published for free by governments.
Its time to learn what you will need in life and not more.Learning cooking is more important than learning geography or history. Food is a matter of survival. Most of us do not have any knowledge on how to preserve food at home. How we can detect spoiled food.
Bu means of developped programs you are now better defined to employers and matching the right person is possible for the requested task. Adding few skills through internet learning you will be able to find a better job , closer to your home , with less working hours and even better paid. But those who will stop learning continously will go astray.
AVRAM AJI
24.03.2018
