Hope Springs: Transferable skills and the mythical perfect candidate
Four interviews arranged in 48 hours. Is it safe to get excited?
In Episode 6 of More Closely Aligned, Annabell and Bri ask whether transferable skills are still getting a fair hearing when employers seem to want someone who has already done the exact same job.
Annabell has seen the same vacancy advertised three times, with an unchanged job description. It brings to mind a German expression: the egg-laying wool milk pig. Apparently, being a unicorn is no longer quite ambitious enough.
Then the conversation takes a hopeful turn. Bri recounts a sudden run of interview invitations across…
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