After five years of unemployment, multiple failed
interviews, and scores of rejections, I am ready to admit the truth: being hired has nothing to do with what you know, and everything to do with
who you know. Positions are only advertised under the façade
of equality; if you are not related by blood, marriage, or some other tenuous
connection to the person in charge, your qualifications and/or education might
as well be non-existent. Prior to
sinking your valuable time, money, and years into a college education, you’d
better make sure beforehand that a job will be waiting for you upon graduation
or you will have one very hard row to hoe.
Don’t believe me? Take your
perfectly-good résumé and apply for a position at a place where you don’t know
the hiring official or aren’t related to the man in charge, and see what
happens. Trust me—you’ll wind up in the
same boat as me, but hopefully with less debt.
