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Oct. 28th, 2013 02:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xylieLately we've been hiring to replace the department which imploded out from underneath me when I got to this position. One guy started last week and he's fairly laconic but a diligent writer. In Nov, my next hire joins us from Eclipse and I have great hopes of him getting on with his team. He has the right personality and good judgement. That leaves one position open and I'm still looking for the right technical writer to fill it.
While I do that I keep pondering on the nature of job applications in general. Jane Eyre is a personal favorite book (Austen serves well too, but has less to do with the topic at hand) and from it, I can always draw something new. This time I focused on Jane's process of obtaining first an invitation to Thornfield and then the rather arduous process of approvals she needs to leave her teaching position at Gateshead:
1) She speaks to her supervisor about her desire to leave for a position double her current salary.
2) The supervisor thus approving, speaks to the board on her behalf.
3) The board approves, but Mr. Brocklehurst insist that they apply to her Aunt Reed for permission.
4) Aunt Reed's icy reply of "Do what you want" suffices.
At least 4 perhaps 10 people determine that Jane can leave her poorly-paid charity job to be a governess for a high family. Not one of them asks after the family itself or the child/children Jane will teach, but all have a say in her future.
It is strange to say the least. Perhaps no different than if Jane were a foster child today, but still odd that so many people could have kept her from advancing further with her life and yet so few cared about her personally and sent her off to a house with a crazed arsonist only a few floor above.
While I do that I keep pondering on the nature of job applications in general. Jane Eyre is a personal favorite book (Austen serves well too, but has less to do with the topic at hand) and from it, I can always draw something new. This time I focused on Jane's process of obtaining first an invitation to Thornfield and then the rather arduous process of approvals she needs to leave her teaching position at Gateshead:
1) She speaks to her supervisor about her desire to leave for a position double her current salary.
2) The supervisor thus approving, speaks to the board on her behalf.
3) The board approves, but Mr. Brocklehurst insist that they apply to her Aunt Reed for permission.
4) Aunt Reed's icy reply of "Do what you want" suffices.
At least 4 perhaps 10 people determine that Jane can leave her poorly-paid charity job to be a governess for a high family. Not one of them asks after the family itself or the child/children Jane will teach, but all have a say in her future.
It is strange to say the least. Perhaps no different than if Jane were a foster child today, but still odd that so many people could have kept her from advancing further with her life and yet so few cared about her personally and sent her off to a house with a crazed arsonist only a few floor above.
