The HR Screen Is the Wrong Market for an Older Engineer
After 18 months without a full-time gig, I stopped treating the standard HR application as my main route to work and started contacting decision makers directly.
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After 18 months without a full-time gig, I stopped treating the standard HR application as my main route to work and started contacting decision makers directly.
At 66, hiring filters rejected me in hours and never saw a person. I am not bitter about it. The same tools that score us out multiplied the range of problems I can solve, and that is worth more than any job I applied for.
A Chief Nursing Officer processes what happened at the board meeting -- and discovers that the structural conflicts she has been managing for years have a name. Episode 02 of the Cascade Valley audio drama series.
Why 'FTE Headcount' is a vanity metric that hides the real constraint: Nursing Minutes at the Bedside.