Since only the Godzilla is used as prerequisites in 'job ads' and the 'job description', job seekers always begin by default as disengaged employees who are always expected to do more to think less, so as to perform and deliver results... complementing investors and share holders' happiness in line with their own EMIs and social status.
It actually helps employees develop and evolve the Jurassic notion, looking at the future, that a job means nothing but a paid responsibility to running after dangling carrots -- one after another -- fulfilling some preset criteria at work -- known as job requirements -- by following some tried and tested, thus tired and thoughtless, process... all in the name of creativity and innovation.
In such a productive environment -- gives complex to even Hitler's gas chamber -- that lets one's spirit go free for sure, well, literally, if employees fail to match job requirements, creatively and innovatively, they are entitled to play the role of guinea pigs under the scanner of TNA: Training Need Analysis.
Thereafter, they got to attend some 'world-class training programs', across the world, which make them climb on trees or eat grass, so they can understand how to use fresh ideas during a sales pitch, naturally, or help them learn scuba diving, so they can comprehend how to use the depth business analytics, as customers and consumers are the ocean of data after all.
And the torture (read training) goes on... unless they quit to join some other companies in order to face and accept more torture until they become immune to the punishment called "unlearning" and retire, seeking VRS mostly, to live a life at last, healing the injuries and insults they had to receive in profession rather helplessly for a survival and a lifestyle minus life.
However, there is no end to it, and can't be, to be precise. Because employers' nature won't change, as none's nature changes -- despite some behavioural change i.e. a camouflage to get things done in own favour.
So, the Godzilla will continue to intimidate job seekers, and who is intimidated could, rather should, never be interested in his/her job let alone career. And who is not interested could hardly be engaged for that matter.
No wonder that's a golden opportunity for coaches, trainers, gurus and the like to mint money from various organisations, mis-selling the concept of 'employee engagement' to employers who are in fact more than willing to buy those 'carrots of gold' to dangle them in front of an employee, making him go ahead to reach El Dorado... to find carat in him at last for laying golden eggs.
"Just in case he managed to know how to leave the carrot behind in the first place."
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