A British employment ‘expert’ has apparently unlocked the secret to job applications. The tip? Bypass the CV.
Skip the cover letter. Go straight to the HR manager’s inbox. And this, we are told, is a ‘revolution’.
That a society once built on industry and craftsmanship now applauds the man who sneaks through the back door is more than irony. It is the final stage of intellectual decadence, a symptom of an age that has forgotten what work means. The Victorians would have laughed.
They understood that character was forged in the furnace of competition, not in the gilded corridors of networking. But we, in our soft, cosseted era, have decided that merit is an inconvenience. We prefer the shortcut.
The tip. The life hack. And we call this progress.
Rome fell not because of barbarians at the gate, but because its citizens stopped believing in the virtues that built the empire. We are now watching that same drama play out in the job market. The decline is not in our technology but in our souls.
