Changing Job Market

The landscape of the job market has changed dramatically over the last few decades. And I believe one of the main drivers for this is the rapid progress made in IT and the advent of the internet age. PC literacy has become almost a pre-requisite in of most jobs. Never before has information has become so freely available. Emails have replaced internal memos. Meeting can be conducted online. The list goes on and on and indirectly this changes the nature of each job.

However, even with this changes certain things in the job place still remain the same, at least in substance if not form. For example, you still need to submit your job applications and attend interviews. But, instead of sending hard copy letters, now application can be done via email or on-line registration. Interviews with prospective candidates can be done instead of face-to-face but via video conferencing.

The principles on improving your chance of getting the job largely remains unchanged for the simple reason that behind all these advancements in technology, human judgement still makes the final call on who should get the jobs.