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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?
What are you? An alien?
Networking was the same then as it is now but, jobs were advertised in printed publications instead of online and there were job fairs, just like today.
Obviously it was not *this* simple but still. It was mostly mail and in person. Precell phone there was still payphones but without mailing address it would be hard to try to confirm things.
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?
There was no life before the internet. People were prehistoric. But jobs were advertised in Newspapers. Check your newspaper, see if they still have the help wanted section.
Humans also used headhunters back then. The headhunters were human too. The headhunters worked at an Employment Agency.
Newspaper classified ads and Help Wanted signs were used to advertise job openings. Humans used the classifieds much like today's humans use the internet to look at open jobs.
You usually had to go in person to the Personnel office to ask for an Application (instead of submitted your resume online). Smaller companies didn't have a Personell office and you usually asked the Front Desk Receptionist if they were taking applications. She (99% this human was a female) - would take the application out of a drawer and hand it to you. Often you filled it out right there and returned it to the receptionist.
Even after internet employers still wanted paper applications. It wasn't until around the early 2000s when they all switched over.
The internet didn't really go "mainstream" at the speed it is today until the early 2000s.
Before, using the internet during the dial-up era was a hindrance.
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