Down and Out in the New Economy
How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today
- Contents
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Introduction: The Company You Keep
1 You Are Just like Coca-Cola: Selling Your Self through Personal Branding
2 Being Generic—and Not—in the Right Way
3 Getting Off the Screen and Into Networks
4 Didn’t We Meet on LinkedIn?
5 Changing the Technological Infrastructure of Hiring
6 The Decision Makers: What It Means to Be a Hiring Manager, Recruiter, or HR Person
7 When Moving On Is the New Normal
Conclusion: We Wanted a Labor Force but Human Beings Came Instead
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
Economics and Business: Business--Industry and Labor
Sociology: Occupations, Professions, Work
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