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Hailing the US job-seeker: origins and neoliberal uses of job applications
Culture, Theory and Critique Pub Date : 2019-01-02 , DOI: 10.1080/14735784.2018.1548299
Ilana Gershon 1
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ABSTRACT In every US city or college campus, it is possible to attend workshops designed to teach job seekers how to fashion the genre repertoire required to apply for a job. Over the past 15 years, these workshops are arenas for hailing the neoliberal subject, teaching different genres as forms that interpellate job applicants as authors of their own ever improving and quantifiable chronological achievements. These workshops condense three paradoxes that neoliberal logics compel practitioners to grapple with. First, the workshops exist because of the presupposition that job seeking has changed radically in the past five or ten years, that job seeking in itself is a skill that one must always learn anew. That is, the very act of entering into an alliance involves a set of skills that must be regularly enhanced. Second, that it is possible to create a standardised genre repertoire demonstrating employability that will be successful regardless of the specific requirements of different types of jobs and workplaces. Third, the self that is being interpellated is also an ever-failing one, creating a veritable army of experts who provide a plethora of advice on how to perfect one's standardised genre repertoire so as to be employable.

中文翻译:

向美国求职者致敬:求职申请的起源和新自由主义用途

摘要 在美国的每一个城市或大学校园,都可以参加旨在教求职者如何塑造申请工作所需的流派曲目的研讨会。在过去的 15 年里,这些讲习班是颂扬新自由主义主题的舞台,教授不同类型的形式,将求职者作为他们自己不断改进和可量化的时间顺序成就的作者。这些研讨会浓缩了新自由主义逻辑迫使实践者应对的三个悖论。首先,工作坊之所以存在,是因为人们认为求职在过去五年或十年中发生了根本性的变化,求职本身就是一种必须不断学习的技能。也就是说,加入联盟的行为本身就涉及一系列必须定期增强的技能。第二,无论不同类型的工作和工作场所的具体要求如何,都可以创建一个标准化的流派曲目,展示就业能力。第三,被质问的自我也是一个永远失败的自我,创造了一支名副其实的专家队伍,他们就如何完善自己的标准化流派曲目提供了大量建议,以便能够就业。
更新日期:2019-01-02
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