Francesco
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Francesco
You’re doomscrolling because you’re looking for something to transform you but you can’t stay with one thing for long enough to be transformed by it. You have short attention span on an existential scale. You’re gliding past thousands of small worlds in minutes, laughing at one post, feeling dread at the next, tempted to buy something right after.... See more
Sherry Ning • You’re bored because you don’t love anything
No one is coming to save you.
You can sit around blaming the market. You can say it’s unfair. You can say it’s exhausting.
But at the end of the day, you either figure it out, or you get left behind.
If you’re invisible, make yourself discoverable.
If your portfolio isn’t getting traction, test and iterate.
If you’re losing at interviews, fix your... See more
You can sit around blaming the market. You can say it’s unfair. You can say it’s exhausting.
But at the end of the day, you either figure it out, or you get left behind.
If you’re invisible, make yourself discoverable.
If your portfolio isn’t getting traction, test and iterate.
If you’re losing at interviews, fix your... See more
This interview touched a nerve I didn’t think was still there so let's have a proper think about it here, shall we.
Right, the market is more competitive and hiring has changed —arguably for the worse. The anonymous designer interviewed here says designers (although it applies to everyone really) caught in this mess need not to raise their concerns but suck it up, dry their tears, and just give. Offer yet more expertise, soul and time to greedy companies and the recruiters that represent them.
Look, I know applications are a tango and it takes two to close a deal. And I appreciated the practical tips shared here to guide people in taking the most helpful steps. But an avalanche of questions came to mind soon after getting to the end of this that the well-meaningness of it all had to take a side step.
Isn’t this problem as much about hiring processes as it is about candidates? What does it say about businesses who seem increasingly detached from spotting real talent?
And where is the conversation about these expectations and the weeks upon weeks of unpaid time candidates are asked to invest into each application?
Until recently, I'd been in the job market and was swimming in it for over a year. No matter how much my interview skills improved, no matter the increasingly positive feedback on my CV, the imbalance remained pretty clear.
For some, the question of who needs to adapt seems to fall heavily on candidates rather than being shared. What I find interesting is how people who land jobs—through skill, timing and yes, maybe a bit of luck and often a lot of free time on their hands—end up presenting their experience as a formula. "I've figured it out and if you just do what I did, you'll get there too!"
But they forget they’re asking you to pick up the burning tray from the oven with your bare hands, and rarely do they question why the system is keeping all the gloves to themselves.
Anyone else wondering about this? Are we just accepting these requirements as how things are? Shouldn’t we be having a chat about whether hiring should be more regulated and how it could work better for everyone?
Potentially something I could replicate
Purpose Talent
purposetalent.xyz
the illustrations on this! and how they make a lot with little copy is something to learn from
"I bring things to people's attention."
Rusty Blazenhoff • How to better answer "So, what do you do?"
Is this what I do?
a community is defined not by common interests or physical space, but as “a group of people who share mutual concern for one another”. It’s the difference between someone you feel you could call on for help in the event of a 3am plumbing emergency, versus “someone you technically ate pizza with” once.
Elle Hunt • I want community – but am I prepared to put the work in?
The way that I (and Igor) drew our maps is with the four axis method, although an “how to work with me” map does not have to follow this scheme and can take other shapes. For example a hand, where the creases in the palm are the axis and their intersection is where those skills meet. Or concentric circles, with each adding a layer/offer/something
... See moreWhat do people need to understand? What are the edges of the map or diagram? What are you not mapping or diagramming? Where will other people see this map or diagram (e.g., on a wall, in a presentation, on paper)?
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
“What are you NOT mapping?” is a great question
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova