Jobs

I've been thinking about the paradox of finding a job, and it seems completely broken to me.
Consider a few facts:

1. The traditional way to get a job is to send a boring resume in response to as many posted jobs as you can. Your resume will be scanned, sorted, and, if it doesn't stand out too much, a person might look at it.

Then you go for a job interview and try to be as coglike as possible in your malleability and desire to fit in. If random acts are working in your favour, you get the job.

2. Then, the big Fortune 1000 company that hired you complains that all their people act like cogs, don't care enough, aren't creative in solving problems, and don't push the status quo.

3. Then, the big Fortune 1000 company realises that as long as they've got interchangeable cogs, they ought to just move jobs offshore, because that's cheaper; or, the company doesn't do that, succumbs to Wall Street pressure, and either cheats on their numbers (and gets caught and tanks) or doesn't cheat, (and gets bought or folded and tanks).

Something's wrong here.

Let's start with one assumption that has changed in just a generation.
You might think that big companies are the backbone of our economy. In fact:
It turns out that 100 percent of all job growth is now coming from small companies (under five hundred employees). In fact, the big companies are shedding jobs, not adding them.

That wasn't true for our parents. It's true for us.

Also true: More likely than not, the best jobs, the most interesting jobs, and the most secure jobs are found in small organizations.

Conclusion: Fitting in to get a job for the big guy is a bad strategy for everyone.