My son Louis graduated this year and after an intense July building a zero energy house in China and August playing tennis with his father in Los Angeles he is now back in Montreal actively looking for a job. Over the course of the summer he has been getting a lot of advice about how to get his first job and most of it can be summarised in one word: Network. It seems that the best way to get a job is by using your network to its fullest extent. It's sad to hear that. Using your friends' and family's contacts to get opportunities leads directly to entrenching privilege. How can society be perceived as fair if your chances of earning a living are dependent on the people you know rather than on your demonstrated abilities? And yet many studies show that social cohesion and harmony are very dependent on the perceived fairness of the society we live in. There are no obvious remedies to the network effect, unless we could create artificial networks which would be open to all. Maybe there is an app idea here ...
In the mean time if any of my readers has an opportunity for a young civil engineer ... You will get 10 points in the competition. (Bribery is the second best way to get a job)
In the mean time if any of my readers has an opportunity for a young civil engineer ... You will get 10 points in the competition. (Bribery is the second best way to get a job)
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