Re:The publishing industry has a gambling problem
by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @05:40PM
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That goes for almost everything, these days.
Job-hunting is a brutal, humiliating slog, because of the thousands of junk CVs even the most obscure job posting gets.
Selling high-quality stuff (software, hardware, widgets, literature, etc.) is a nightmare, because you have to tread water above the deluge of junk.
It's really depressing.
Re:The publishing industry has a gambling problem
by bigstrat2003 on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:03PM
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> Job-hunting is a brutal, humiliating slog, because of the thousands of junk CVs even the most obscure job posting gets.
Having been on the hiring end, I can assure you that it is not true that even the most obscure posting gets thousands of applicants. Sometimes you put out a job and get very few bites. So it depends, as always, on the specifics of the posting (what industry, where it is, etc).
Re:The publishing industry has a gambling problem
by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @08:07PM
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Good point. I was really referring to IT industry openings.
I will say that companies use the tsunami of junk, as justification for the nastiness of the interview process.
> There's so many high quality books being published each day. It's overwhelming!
Thousands of new releases a day could mean as many as two or three in high quality. That's more than you can read, but not enough to overwhelm anyone. What's overwhelming is the several thousand that are garbage.