The problem is more that I feel baited and switched by her title - like the book was going to be more about her trying to interview for jobs, when in reality, the point of the book is that she couldn't GET an interview. If she really wanted to explore this issue, I think it would have been better done by getting out there and interviewing some of the unemployed and some of the employers who are very deliberately discriminating against people who are older and have gaps in their resumes.
She is right about upper corporate America being a social club, and she is right about corporations treating their workers like they're disposable, but it doesn't really come across in this book because she doesn't give a view from the inside. Seriously. If you can't actually get in, interview people who are in. I just think she could have gotten a stronger case by doing that rather than going for the amusement factor by talking about the job-hunting circus.
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Date: 2005-11-22 11:37 am (UTC)She is right about upper corporate America being a social club, and she is right about corporations treating their workers like they're disposable, but it doesn't really come across in this book because she doesn't give a view from the inside. Seriously. If you can't actually get in, interview people who are in. I just think she could have gotten a stronger case by doing that rather than going for the amusement factor by talking about the job-hunting circus.