The linear, one-to-many and many-to-one journey of the job seeker is fast becoming a quaint relic of the past. So is its counterpart, the conventional approach to talent acquisition for hiring organizations — also at once one-to-many and many-to-one. This extinction is good, not bad. It would be great if this extinction picked up the pace. Many remain trapped in the old binary, a ledger of job seekers on one side and hiring organizations on the other as both apply an anachronistic model to their search. Their collective lives can be frustrating. In bad economies, the odds of this model working in favor of job seekers are exceedingly low as an influx of applications flood the hiring organization’s zone. In bad and good economies alike, […]