Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 3:30pm
Memorial Union, Atrium I
50 Lower College Rd, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA
A public lecture by Ilana Gershon (Indiana University)
Part of the Harrington Forum lecture series
Hiring workshops promise to teach us how to get hired. Over the past 15 years, these workshops have transformed job applicants into authors of standardized documents that present their improving and quantifiable chronological achievements. Ilana Gershon reveals the paradoxical state of hiring in a neoliberal age, arguing that these workshops exist because we believe three things: that hiring has changed drastically, that well-formatted documents are more important than skills and requirements, and that we should pay for an endless stream of expert advice on how to perfect those documents. This lecture shows that applying for a job is even more complicated than it seems.
Ilana Gershon is interested in how new media affects highly charged social tasks. Her books include The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media and Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (or Don’t Find) Work Today. Dr. Gershon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.
Sponsored by the Harrington School of Communication and Media
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the College of Business Administration, and the Center for Career and Experiential Education
College of Arts and Sciences, Anthropology Department, College of Business, Harrington School of Communication and Media, Center for Career & Experiential Education (CCEE)
Scott Kushner
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