viva las vegas
September 18th, 2005
A myriad of businesses have been effected negatively due to the rise of the Internet.
Newspapers, TV, radio, billboards and the like have all been shaken from their lofty perches over the last 10 years.
In contrast, after a few days in Las Vegas, it’s clear that online gaming has not had the same effect on Sin City. Quite the opposite. The city’s primary industry is booming.
On paper, the rise in online gaming could have sent Vegas into a similar fate as other offline giants facing new threats from the Web.
Instead, it’s clear (to this layman at least) that the rise in online accessibility to Internet casinos has increased the number of gamblers worldwide and catalyzed these loyalists to make way for their very own Holy Land.
September 19th, 2005 at 2:12 am
I’d say that the business of filling job openings has also been negatively affected by the Internet.
In a previous lifetime, a manager could receive about 25 resumes for an advertised position. Most mailings would be local, and people would think about spending the postage.
Now with email and online forms making submission costs irrelevant, recruiters can receive 100’s of entries for one job posting.
This has made it far more difficult for the truly talented active job candidate who wants to make a change. It’s tough for this person to differentiate themselves from all the other wannabees who are hoping to get lucky.
This has some of the technically savvy decide that they will purposely use the Internet in their lives only up to a point. Sure, they may find out about certain openings through job sites. Yet they also know human beings still insist on hiring human beings. So until recruiting is actually delegated entirely to machine, there’s still the chance of inserting the human component somewhere in this, including the in-person visit advocated by Howard Figler who recently revised his Complete Job Search Handbook.
September 22nd, 2005 at 7:12 pm
I guess it is difficult for newspapers to create the ‘razzle dazzle’ that oozes out of every step taken in Vegas. (Perception is also reality as I have not been there).
The creators that invested in the Vegas dream were ahead of their time and reap the rewards long into the night.
Recruitment advertising in the newspapers had some sense of culture and reward for the active job seeker and the early general news advertiser, but the slow turning wheel that stirred the ‘rivers of gold’ (And well supported by the ad agencies hungry for their commissions), seems here in Australia not to know how to move with the times.
The internet is like Vegas to the active jobseeker, it has the razzle dazzle of job choice and the expectation that by shooting off résumés like they are going out of fashion, that their dreams will come true.
But ‘buyer beware’, you only get what you pay for!
Once the wheels are in motion you have to still perform in this dog eat dog world of
online recruitment.
Let’s hope that online recruitment is the Vegas of recruiting and that when the next big thing arrives on the scene we are still reaping the rewards long into the night!