Genres are the drive belts of the job market

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dc.citation.firstpage768en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber6en_US
dc.citation.journalTitleJournal of Cultural Economyen_US
dc.citation.lastpage781en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber15en_US
dc.contributor.authorGershon, Ilanaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-07T16:55:28Zen_US
dc.date.available2023-11-07T16:55:28Zen_US
dc.date.issued2022en_US
dc.description.abstractMany job applicants spend an inordinate amount of time struggling with the task of fashioning the most appealing biography of the increasingly skillful self out of interwoven genres that can also circulate individually. These struggles are most frequently articulated as questions of how best to manage different genres’ chronotopic expectations. Under neoliberalism, how workers are expected to represent their previous work lives has shifted significantly from earlier moments of capitalism: they are now expected to represent themselves as entrepreneurial selves. Over and over again in various workshops about job applicant genres, participants’ concerns over how to represent their employment history via different genres became the focus of the workshop. The focus on mastering a genre’s chronotopic expectations stood in for job applicants’ anxieties over representing themselves as the ideal neoliberal employee. The standardization and abstraction of time and the neoliberal expectations now linked to these genres has led to predictable conceptual quandaries for job applicants about how to connect oneself in appropriate ways to previous contexts that become articulated as dilemmas surrounding the pragmatics of producing genres’ chronotopes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationGershon, I. (2022). Genres are the drive belts of the job market. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(6), 768–781. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087714en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2087714en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/115303en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.rightsThis work is protected by copyright, and is made available here for research and educational purposes. Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce the work beyond the bounds of fair use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder.en_US
dc.subject.keywordHiringen_US
dc.subject.keywordjob applicationsen_US
dc.subject.keywordgenre repertoireen_US
dc.subject.keywordchronotopesen_US
dc.subject.keywordresumesen_US
dc.subject.keywordLinkedInen_US
dc.titleGenres are the drive belts of the job marketen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.publicationauthor manuscripten_US
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