So I decided that I needed to get a job over Christmas break. However, I didn’t go home over Thanksgiving break so I couldn’t look for jobs then. I heard through one of my friends that I could apply to Macy’s online. When I found the website I was amazed at all the different level of positions and how much of the application process could actually be done on the web.
This got me thinking about globalization and how it now affects people who are looking for jobs as well as the job application process. What did people do before the internet let alone websites such as Monster? The process of finding and applying for a job is very streamlined now.
Even though I could complete the application for a New York store sitting at my computer in
Virginia, I am still required to come to the store for an interview before I am hired. I guess this makes me feel better about the employees at Macy’s since I really wouldn’t want a person serving me who is incompetent at customer service. However, the way that I was assigned an interview was through the web. I was given a certain date and time but was able, through the use of a drop box, to pick a date and time that was good for me.
If the Macy’s application isn’t a result of globalization, then I don’t know what is. How is it that a decade ago, people would never have even thought to look at the internet for a job and now people are spending all of their time searching online job recruiting sites? What are the implications of this? Will people be less inclined to be customer friendly? Or has that already occurred through outsourcing of jobs?
