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What was the hiring process like before the internet? Or did humans for the most part work at the local machine making place?
How did humans who graduate from universities across the country apply to highly sought after salaried positions in big cities, particularly when they have never been there? How did humans find jobs that were just as well compensated and just as good for personal development and lifestyle but were in a different location?
It was the same, instead of emailing resume/cover letter PDFs, they were sent through snail mail.
And for other locations, I got the newspapers for the locations I wanted to move to. Big cities generally had at least one place that carried the newspapers for other cities. In Boston, it was Out of Town News in Harvard Square.
So you are from another universe dude ? The medium just changed now otherwise process is still same. People get notified by employer websites and local international job portals plus newspaper ads and advertisement still there. So what was exactly the thing you wanted to ask ? seriously
You're chastising the op only to say the process is the same and people get notified by employer websites?
Employer websites didn't exist before the internet.
when talking to my elderly aunt about job hunting in my old hometown where she still lived; she was at the time 70-something. She kept saying "go by these companies, you'll do better in person." One was the local hospital, local mall stores--she made me promise I would go there in person before I left town. I tried to explain to her that they would just refer me to their online application process (which of course was true--I went in person at the hospital and they directed me to their computers), but she didn't want to hear that.
One thing she volunteered was so funny in retrospect--she had always had a very deep and loud voice, mannish in fact, and she said it would be helpful to me to apply in person since I had a feminine voice!
In the glory days, you just walked in and said hello. You were given an application. A manager would come out and scan over it. He would ask a few questions. If you did not come across as a total imbecile the Manager would generally ask when you were available to start. Those were the days!
when talking to my elderly aunt about job hunting in my old hometown where she still lived; she was at the time 70-something. She kept saying "go by these companies, you'll do better in person." One was the local hospital, local mall stores--she made me promise I would go there in person before I left town. I tried to explain to her that they would just refer me to their online application process (which of course was true--I went in person at the hospital and they directed me to their computers), but she didn't want to hear that.
One thing she volunteered was so funny in retrospect--she had always had a very deep and loud voice, mannish in fact, and she said it would be helpful to me to apply in person since I had a feminine voice!
It sounds like your Aunt may have felt she was a victim of voice discrimination.
I thank goodness I existed before the Internet and had the benefit of campus interviewing that actually worked. I also mailed in a resume to a newspaper ad that got me an interview and job offer. I have never used monster.com or any online service and will happily live the rest of my life hopefully never using the Internet to get a job.
PS I like how the OP referred to "humans" and I know it was tongue in cheek to add humor to a question.
You would go in person and fill out the application.
Nowadays, if you walk into a business and ask for an app, they look at you like you are from mars. Everything has to be done online now.
Doesn't it go both ways? From what I've researched from archives that were never uploaded into an electronic format, humans used to have to drive 6 miles, rain or shine, just to go to a movie rental building just to be told that all three of the copies of the movie they wanted were checked out, and they actually had to sit there and do nothing while doing something called rewinding the cassette.
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Yep, I ran into this
