Headhunting online as main factor for quality decline in services and products

Head hunting – a term that subconsciously refers to stalking in Luca Brasi’s style – is what modern “specialists” of job finding market prone to use. Idea here is not to find “right person, for the right place”, but rather to “capture random brain, and sell it for as much as possible”.

A system developed to enslave ordinary people, to job places, where there is very fancy place, but no job at all. Where specialist’s main target is actually to be able to “sell” piece of information from his sphere to his boss, colleague or company clients. When you’re sold one time to some big and fancy name, the one that usually abbreviated in NY Stock Market, then you can later be resold in every other place, indifferently of what you were doing or how successful you were.

Once you got into this vicious circle, you start to grieve for more and more. You start getting diplomas and certifications of companies and places that do not really provide any practical knowledge, but having them listed in your CV, you add yourself 20% to 40% chance of approval and 20% to 40% addition salary.

And you keep working and working, losing 12 to 14 hours daily of your life, just to make these few more bucks so your children would have a better childhood. You see the absurd of this system, but you accept it, since you have no confidence in that you can beat it, or no wish to stay hungry for yet another night.

Your days become boring. You your spare time playing online games in the office, all along with other workers. You live from party to party, taken they are all corporate parties, where you know how to act to become closer to the top, or just have momentary pleasure. You start following company’s ideology, written by some great “manager” or psychologist of our time, which actually was illiterate, or simply was doing his job.

You still want more, and you enslave yourself into a mountain of loans, which stays up with you until you grow old and helpless, by which time, circle either continues with your children, or breaks, leaving you in a situation, where you were most afraid to be left in.

This is quite typical scenario of a worker in modern society. Usually it does not include creative artists, who either starve, or make really good money, actually doing something they wanted to do along their life. This also does not include engineers and hard core specialists in precise sciences, whom wanted most of times, science “you can’t do business just with managers”.

So, what is the result of above describe head hunting? Result is that so called “managers”, people who received “education” in field of management, commerce, human relationship, etc, etc, fill up really big and serious multinational corporations with personnel inadequate to their positions.

Next thing you see biggest IT company in the world, listing countries in their “career” section, in different languages, randomly; you see that one technical disfeature, alters hours of your work; you see a bug in software, setup on 60% of all world computers, that allows new plague of cyber world to spread.

Come to think about it, cyber plaque is also good. It provides job places for real specialists, hackers, reverse engineers and IT security sphere. But very same time, wouldn’t it be better to employ those specialists in technologies developing companies, and save you one step?

Market studies answers “No” to this question, since final goal of every big company is to make money, not to produce quality product. Quality is relative unit of measurement – whatever 10,000 people liked over 100 people, is considered quality. And it doesn’t really matter that one of these days, 10,000 people will feel themselves completely helpless, pushing on phone relays, calling technical support assistants to solve their miserable situation. It doesn’t matter that mass production might cause mass returns. What matters is that it was sold the first time, and it will be sold again, when new version is released.

A question here for end customer to ask is whether it’s better to have 1 giant company providing him with most compatible and widely used tools of business, or have few different small, sometimes non-profit organizations, that provide, perhaps not so popular, but right solution?