Letters to the Editor: Navigating modern-day recruitment as a young worker

One reader reflects on the challenge of securing a job, while others consider climate change and Ireland's defence policy

One reader suggests that job-hunting has become much like the digitised world of online dating — not least in terms of rejection unaccompanied by basic human courtesy and decency. Stock picture: iStock

Attempting to enter the job market as a skilled young graduate — Expected waiting time: Eight months, and 100+ rejections. It is of my potentially controversial yet humble, Generation Z “snowflake” opinion that the modern world of recruitment has become much like that of its digital counterpart — the modern digitised world of dating.

Such a desensitised world, where people are no longer people; they are swipeable, ghostable, and incentive-driven entities.