Author: Olivia

You're a boomer. You walk into whatever store/factory you see, give the manager a firm handshake, say “One job, please!” and he looks down past the resume you're holding and sees you're wearing shoes. Congratulations! Here's your union job, a big stack of money, and don't worry that you can't tie them because they'll deliver the moon to train you to be able to do everything the job requires. Now go buy that house, you rascal you! You're a millennial/zoomer. You can't just go into a place anymore, especially one of the major companies that are eating away at the job market like an overzealous Pac Man. You need to apply online and hope to hell the AI Omnisssiah that reviews your application grants you mercy because it detected enough of the good words, the company approved words, in your resume and cover letter and filled in resume sections of…

When I put “I choose not to answer” I get more calls for interviews or if I put white. I also have an ethnic first name but a “regular last name” when I changed my first name I also got calls back instead of using my name at birth. On LinkedIn I removed my profile picture and more companies were interested in looking at my resume.