WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.899 Welcome back to the deep dive. I want you to 00:00:01.899 --> 00:00:03.980 just, you know, picture a file on your computer 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:06.820 right now. It's probably sitting in a folder 00:00:06.820 --> 00:00:10.039 that's labeled something like personal or maybe 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:13.660 career or just desperation or yeah, please hire 00:00:13.660 --> 00:00:16.660 me in all caps. And it's this one document that 00:00:16.660 --> 00:00:19.280 for better or worse claims to summarize your 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:21.839 entire existence as a productive human being. 00:00:21.879 --> 00:00:24.679 It's the paper key, isn't it? It's somehow the 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.890 single most important document. in a modern adult's 00:00:27.890 --> 00:00:31.609 life but we spend most of our time actively dreading 00:00:31.609 --> 00:00:34.969 it absolutely we are talking of course about 00:00:34.969 --> 00:00:37.969 the resume or early we're talking about the cv 00:00:37.969 --> 00:00:41.520 you see Even just starting this, I can feel that 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.079 little bit of anxiety rising. Oh, yeah. Because 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:46.320 the moment you start to really look at this document, 00:00:46.460 --> 00:00:48.340 the sheer weight of it hits you. I'm talking 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:51.359 about the term itself, curriculum vitae. Just 00:00:51.359 --> 00:00:53.899 sounds heavy. It sounds so heavy. Just say it 00:00:53.899 --> 00:00:56.179 out loud. It does not sound like a list of summer 00:00:56.179 --> 00:00:58.359 jobs you held at the mall in high school. It 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:00.640 sounds important. It sounds academic. It sounds, 00:01:00.659 --> 00:01:02.979 well, a little intimidating. That's because it's 00:01:02.979 --> 00:01:06.340 carrying the weight of history. It's Latin. And 00:01:06.340 --> 00:01:09.000 the literal translation is the course of life. 00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:11.939 The course of life. See, that is heavy. That 00:01:11.939 --> 00:01:14.719 is so profound. It sounds like something a philosopher 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:16.459 would write, you know, right before they die. 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.219 Not a PDF I upload to some online portal for 00:01:19.219 --> 00:01:22.700 a mid -level marketing job. Right. Here is the 00:01:22.700 --> 00:01:26.030 course of my life. I hope you like my experience 00:01:26.030 --> 00:01:28.569 with pivot tables. Exactly. It feels like we're 00:01:28.569 --> 00:01:30.569 dealing with something ancient and sacred here. 00:01:30.750 --> 00:01:33.069 And we are. And honestly, just sticking with 00:01:33.069 --> 00:01:35.269 that term curriculum vitae, that's where the 00:01:35.269 --> 00:01:37.209 trouble begins for a lot of people. Because right 00:01:37.209 --> 00:01:39.769 away, you slam into the core conflict of the 00:01:39.769 --> 00:01:42.829 working world. Is it a CV? Is it a resume? Are 00:01:42.829 --> 00:01:44.909 they the same thing? Oh, absolutely. If I upload 00:01:44.909 --> 00:01:47.170 one when they ask for the other, have I just... 00:01:47.420 --> 00:01:49.379 you know committed some kind of mortal sin am 00:01:49.379 --> 00:01:52.040 i out of the running already this is the classic 00:01:52.040 --> 00:01:55.400 panic moment you are applying for a job you see 00:01:55.400 --> 00:01:57.920 the button and it says upload cv but your file 00:01:57.920 --> 00:02:01.540 is named my resume final v3 dot doc final v3 00:02:01.540 --> 00:02:04.500 yeah do you rename it do you panic do you need 00:02:04.500 --> 00:02:06.680 to write a whole new document from scratch i 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:09.139 feel like every single person listening has had 00:02:09.139 --> 00:02:13.740 that moment of just complete hesitation It's 00:02:13.740 --> 00:02:16.120 an incredibly common point of confusion. People 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:18.400 use the terms interchangeably all the time in 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:20.400 casual conversation. You'll hear someone say, 00:02:20.479 --> 00:02:22.800 hey, send me your CV, when what they really mean 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.840 is just send me a one -page summary. Right. But 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:27.819 depending on where you are geographically or 00:02:27.819 --> 00:02:29.659 what specific industry you're trying to get into, 00:02:29.819 --> 00:02:33.759 getting that terminology wrong can be a major, 00:02:33.919 --> 00:02:37.560 major faux pas. How so? It sends a signal before 00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:40.419 anyone has even read a single word of your qualifications. 00:02:40.919 --> 00:02:43.669 It says, I don't know the norms of this field. 00:02:43.810 --> 00:02:45.729 All right. It's the first test. Basically, it's 00:02:45.729 --> 00:02:47.530 a shibboleth. If you know the password, you get 00:02:47.530 --> 00:02:49.430 in. If you don't, you're out before you even 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:51.189 start it. So that's our mission for this deep 00:02:51.189 --> 00:02:52.909 dive. We are not just going to give you formatting 00:02:52.909 --> 00:02:54.669 tips that we will touch on structure because 00:02:54.669 --> 00:02:57.150 it absolutely matters. We're going to decode 00:02:57.150 --> 00:02:59.370 the language of employment. We're going to look 00:02:59.370 --> 00:03:01.610 at this massive shift that's happening right 00:03:01.610 --> 00:03:03.889 now and how we value careers. There's a whole 00:03:03.889 --> 00:03:06.090 narrative trend that's popping up, especially 00:03:06.090 --> 00:03:09.080 in the sciences. And we are going to explore 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:12.020 some absolutely fascinating and frankly, sometimes 00:03:12.020 --> 00:03:15.199 depressing terminology that's buried in the footnotes 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:18.400 of the working world. The see also section of 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.120 our source material today is a complete goldmine 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:24.139 of modern workplace psychology and sociology. 00:03:24.539 --> 00:03:27.560 We're going to talk about bore out golden parachutes 00:03:27.560 --> 00:03:31.050 and the precariat. It really is a full tour through 00:03:31.050 --> 00:03:33.370 the modern condition. We're pulling from a really 00:03:33.370 --> 00:03:36.449 comprehensive breakdown of the term, its history, 00:03:36.569 --> 00:03:39.050 its academic usage, and that whole surrounding 00:03:39.050 --> 00:03:41.930 lexicon you just mentioned. So buckle up. We 00:03:41.930 --> 00:03:43.650 are going to unpack the course of your life. 00:03:43.810 --> 00:03:45.710 Let's start at the very beginning, the words 00:03:45.710 --> 00:03:49.189 themselves. The Great Atlantic Divide, or I guess 00:03:49.189 --> 00:03:51.509 we should start with the Great Linguistic Divide 00:03:51.509 --> 00:03:53.789 first. Segment one, terminology and geography. 00:03:54.289 --> 00:03:56.449 You mentioned course of life. Let's dig into 00:03:56.449 --> 00:03:59.619 that Latin a little bit more. Yes. Curriculum 00:03:59.619 --> 00:04:02.719 vitae. Etymologically, it's really quite beautiful, 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.699 but it's also quite rigorous. Curriculum comes 00:04:05.699 --> 00:04:09.479 from the verb curere, which means to run. To 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:13.060 run, like a race. Exactly like a race. A curriculum 00:04:13.060 --> 00:04:15.719 in ancient Rome wasn't a syllabus for a class. 00:04:15.759 --> 00:04:18.160 It was a race course. It was the actual track 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:21.060 where the chariots ran their laps. Wow. So it 00:04:21.060 --> 00:04:23.779 implies a circular motion, you know, laps, a 00:04:23.779 --> 00:04:26.220 defined path that you have to traverse. It's 00:04:26.220 --> 00:04:28.240 not a casual wander through the woods. It's a 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:30.899 track. That feels incredibly appropriate for 00:04:30.899 --> 00:04:32.759 the modern corporate world, doesn't it? It feels 00:04:32.759 --> 00:04:34.839 like a grind. I am running the laps. I am on 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:37.199 the track. That's the feeling. And vitae, of 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.339 course, is the genitive singular of vitae, which 00:04:39.339 --> 00:04:41.560 means life. So you put it together and you get 00:04:41.560 --> 00:04:44.540 the running of the life or maybe a bit more poetically, 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:47.610 the race course of the life, which is. Again, 00:04:47.689 --> 00:04:49.750 so poetic, but then you have to actually say 00:04:49.750 --> 00:04:51.930 it out loud in a modern office. And this is where 00:04:51.930 --> 00:04:53.790 I feel like I'm back in high school trying to 00:04:53.790 --> 00:04:55.670 impress a teacher and just completely failing. 00:04:55.970 --> 00:04:59.050 How do you actually pronounce this? Because I 00:04:59.050 --> 00:05:01.569 hear everything. I hear V -E -T -I, I hear V 00:05:01.569 --> 00:05:05.970 -U -I -E -T. What is actually correct here? Well, 00:05:06.009 --> 00:05:07.730 there's a legitimate debate, and it's actually 00:05:07.730 --> 00:05:09.670 recorded in the dictionaries. If you look at 00:05:09.670 --> 00:05:11.769 the source material, there are three distinct 00:05:11.769 --> 00:05:14.189 variations that you'll find in English, and they 00:05:14.189 --> 00:05:16.509 each tell you a little something about where 00:05:16.509 --> 00:05:19.970 or maybe when someone learned their Latin. It's 00:05:19.970 --> 00:05:22.170 a linguistic fingerprint. It is, yeah. It's a 00:05:22.170 --> 00:05:24.269 classic case of linguistic evolution. Okay, so 00:05:24.269 --> 00:05:26.050 lay them on me. What's option one, the one I 00:05:26.050 --> 00:05:28.009 can say without, you know, getting laughed out 00:05:28.009 --> 00:05:29.670 of the room? Option one is the one you probably 00:05:29.670 --> 00:05:32.810 hear the most. It's the traditional school Latin 00:05:32.810 --> 00:05:41.860 pronunciation. Okay. That sounds standard. That 00:05:41.860 --> 00:05:43.379 sounds like what I would expect to hear maybe 00:05:43.379 --> 00:05:46.120 in the Yuko or in a law firm. Very common there, 00:05:46.139 --> 00:05:49.360 yes. And in most American legal or academic contexts 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.839 as well, it's the safe bet. If you're not sure, 00:05:52.879 --> 00:05:54.779 go with Vitae. Okay. But then you have the second 00:05:54.779 --> 00:05:56.519 variation, which is becoming more and more common 00:05:56.519 --> 00:05:59.040 because of how Latin is actually instructed in 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:03.019 modern settings. That pronunciation is weakras. 00:06:04.540 --> 00:06:08.759 With a W sound? With a W, yes. In classical Latin, 00:06:08.819 --> 00:06:11.379 though, the way that Cicero or Caesar would have 00:06:11.379 --> 00:06:14.199 actually spoken, the letter V, was pronounced 00:06:14.199 --> 00:06:16.819 like a W. There was no V sound in ancient Rome. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.079 So Vini, Viti, Vici was actually pronounced Wini, 00:06:21.160 --> 00:06:25.540 Witi, Witi. Wow. OK, so curriculum we tie. That 00:06:25.540 --> 00:06:27.139 sounds I don't know. It sounds a little soft. 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.439 Maybe here is my we tie. I feel like if I walked 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:32.120 into a corporate boardroom in New York and said, 00:06:32.180 --> 00:06:34.339 here are copies of my curriculum we tie, they 00:06:34.339 --> 00:06:36.819 might they might laugh me out of the room. They 00:06:36.819 --> 00:06:38.339 might or they might think you're offering them 00:06:38.339 --> 00:06:40.600 a breakfast cereal. Right. It definitely signals 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:42.500 a very specific academic background, though. 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:45.399 It does. It tells the listener I study classics 00:06:45.399 --> 00:06:48.500 or I really care about historical phonetic reconstruction. 00:06:48.899 --> 00:06:51.319 It's a flex, but it's a very dirty flex. It's 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:53.740 a dangerous flex in a job interview. It can be. 00:06:54.000 --> 00:06:56.160 And then there's a third variant, which is less 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.360 common but still out there, mostly among older 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:02.600 speakers, and that is AVT. BT. Okay, that sounds 00:07:02.600 --> 00:07:05.639 like a vitamin. Or like mighty curriculum vitae. 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:07.819 It's an anglicized vowel shift. It comes from 00:07:07.819 --> 00:07:09.639 the great vowel shift in English where we basically 00:07:09.639 --> 00:07:12.040 changed how we said all of our long vowels. It 00:07:12.040 --> 00:07:14.660 sounds very, I don't know, 19th century British 00:07:14.660 --> 00:07:18.079 barrister. My good man, pray examine my curriculum 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:21.379 vitae. Okay, so just to be safe, sticking with 00:07:21.379 --> 00:07:23.620 vitae seems like the best middle ground, but 00:07:23.620 --> 00:07:25.600 it's fascinating that the pronunciation alone 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.019 can be a shibboleth. It signals which group you 00:07:29.019 --> 00:07:32.279 belong to. But the bigger signal, the one that 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.879 actually affects your job prospects, is how you 00:07:35.879 --> 00:07:38.839 use the word itself versus the word resume. And 00:07:38.839 --> 00:07:40.620 this is the geography part because I think a 00:07:40.620 --> 00:07:43.000 lot of our listeners might just assume, oh, CV 00:07:43.000 --> 00:07:45.199 is just a fancy word for resume. Right, like 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:49.100 flat versus apartment or lift versus elevator. 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.819 It's just a dialect thing, a bit of local flavor. 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:56.459 And if they are in the UK or New Zealand or Ireland. 00:07:57.180 --> 00:07:59.279 Or most of the Commonwealth? They're absolutely 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:01.740 right. In most English -speaking countries outside 00:08:01.740 --> 00:08:06.079 of North America, CV is the standard default 00:08:06.079 --> 00:08:09.040 umbrella term. For everything? For everything. 00:08:09.399 --> 00:08:11.540 If you are applying to work at a coffee shop 00:08:11.540 --> 00:08:14.620 in London, you hand in your CV. If you're applying 00:08:14.620 --> 00:08:17.060 to be a bank manager in Dublin, you hand in your 00:08:17.060 --> 00:08:20.680 CV. It's just the word for a short summary of 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:23.199 your career. Okay. But then you cross the Atlantic. 00:08:23.300 --> 00:08:26.829 You land in the U .S. or Canada. And suddenly 00:08:26.829 --> 00:08:29.310 the rules change completely. Completely. In North 00:08:29.310 --> 00:08:31.850 America, we have a strict bifurcation. We have 00:08:31.850 --> 00:08:33.750 two very different documents with two different 00:08:33.750 --> 00:08:36.309 names and two very different purposes. And mixing 00:08:36.309 --> 00:08:39.090 them up is, well, it can be fatal to an application. 00:08:39.370 --> 00:08:40.909 Let's break that distinction down because the 00:08:40.909 --> 00:08:43.070 source material is very, very clear on this. 00:08:43.309 --> 00:08:45.870 Okay. So in North America, the resume, which 00:08:45.870 --> 00:08:48.350 is a French word, it originally means summary. 00:08:48.710 --> 00:08:51.090 That's the document you use for almost all non 00:08:51.090 --> 00:08:53.889 -academic jobs. So corporate, nonprofit, industrial. 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:56.720 All of it. If you're applying for a job at Google 00:08:56.720 --> 00:08:59.639 or Ford or a local charity, you send a resume. 00:08:59.779 --> 00:09:02.860 And a resume is short. Right. The name itself 00:09:02.860 --> 00:09:05.700 implies brevity. Exactly. It's short. It's concise. 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:08.419 It's a summary. It's a highlight reel of your 00:09:08.419 --> 00:09:11.620 career, not the full feature film. Okay. So then 00:09:11.620 --> 00:09:15.379 what is the CV in North America? The CV is reserved 00:09:15.379 --> 00:09:18.639 almost exclusively for academia, for medicine, 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:21.700 and for scientific research. And it is not short. 00:09:21.940 --> 00:09:25.659 At all. It is a... comprehensive, often massive 00:09:25.659 --> 00:09:28.879 document. that lists absolutely everything you 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:30.960 have ever done professionally. So this is where 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:33.000 all the confusion comes from, because you have 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.440 American dictionaries and universities like UC 00:09:35.440 --> 00:09:37.799 Davis, which is cited in our source, pointing 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:40.059 out that people do use them interchangeably in 00:09:40.059 --> 00:09:42.460 casual conversation. Right. An American hiring 00:09:42.460 --> 00:09:44.320 manager might absolutely say, hey, shoot me your 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.059 CV. What they really mean is send me a resume. 00:09:47.279 --> 00:09:49.860 And usually in that casual context, it's fine. 00:09:49.960 --> 00:09:52.220 No one's going to penalize you. But if you are 00:09:52.220 --> 00:09:55.139 applying for a Ph .D. program or a tenure track 00:09:55.139 --> 00:09:58.000 position, at a university or a research fellowship 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.100 and you send them a two -page resume, you've 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:02.940 failed. Because you haven't shown them enough. 00:10:03.159 --> 00:10:05.539 It looks like you haven't done anything. Exactly. 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:07.700 You haven't shown them the course of life. And 00:10:07.700 --> 00:10:10.179 conversely, if you apply for that marketing job 00:10:10.179 --> 00:10:13.460 in Chicago and you send them a 15 -page academic 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:17.019 CV listing every single conference you ever attended 00:10:17.019 --> 00:10:19.200 in graduate school. You've also failed. You've 00:10:19.200 --> 00:10:21.139 also failed. They'll think you don't understand 00:10:21.139 --> 00:10:23.220 the corporate world at all. It's the Goldilocks 00:10:23.220 --> 00:10:25.919 problem. One is too short for the professors. 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.840 The other is way too long for the recruiters. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:31.879 That's it precisely. And the source explicitly 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:34.679 mentions that despite this conversational confusion, 00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:37.679 the distinction in North American academia is 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:40.960 rigid. You cannot fake it. You just have to know 00:10:40.960 --> 00:10:43.639 the code. So let's dig into what actually makes 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.440 these two documents so different. Not just the 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.740 name, but the format, the function, the whole 00:10:48.740 --> 00:10:50.980 philosophy behind them. This is segment two. 00:10:51.789 --> 00:10:53.909 Let's start with the industry resume, the common 00:10:53.909 --> 00:10:56.610 North American style. Okay, so the purpose of 00:10:56.610 --> 00:10:59.830 the industry resume is speed. It is a screening 00:10:59.830 --> 00:11:03.110 tool, first and foremost. Speed for who? The 00:11:03.110 --> 00:11:06.830 person writing it? No, no, no. Speed for the 00:11:06.830 --> 00:11:10.490 reader, the employer, the hiring manager, the 00:11:10.490 --> 00:11:13.450 recruiter. The source notes that employers rarely 00:11:13.450 --> 00:11:16.009 spend more than a few minutes reviewing a resume. 00:11:16.190 --> 00:11:18.610 A few minutes feels generous. It is. Yeah. In 00:11:18.610 --> 00:11:20.690 reality, multiple studies have shown it's often 00:11:20.690 --> 00:11:23.450 just seconds. The most famous one found an average 00:11:23.450 --> 00:11:27.269 of a six -second scan. Six seconds. Six seconds 00:11:27.269 --> 00:11:29.509 to judge my entire course of life. That's just, 00:11:29.549 --> 00:11:32.190 that's deeply depressing. It is. I spent four 00:11:32.190 --> 00:11:34.570 years in college, three years in my first job, 00:11:34.750 --> 00:11:37.220 all of that effort, and I get six seconds. It 00:11:37.220 --> 00:11:39.500 is depressing, but you have to understand the 00:11:39.500 --> 00:11:41.940 reality of the market. A recruiter might get 00:11:41.940 --> 00:11:44.539 200 applications for one position. They can't 00:11:44.539 --> 00:11:47.259 read 200 life stories. So the goal isn't to find 00:11:47.259 --> 00:11:49.600 people. It's to get rid of people. The goal is 00:11:49.600 --> 00:11:51.700 to screen applicants out as quickly as possible. 00:11:51.820 --> 00:11:53.860 That is why the format is so brutally concise. 00:11:54.200 --> 00:11:58.139 One to two pages maximum. And the source emphasizes 00:11:58.139 --> 00:12:00.820 what it calls the scan factor. The scan factor. 00:12:01.059 --> 00:12:03.240 Success depends on having enough white space 00:12:03.240 --> 00:12:05.659 to make it scannable. White space. So literally 00:12:05.659 --> 00:12:09.080 the empty space on the page is valuable. Incredibly 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:11.899 valuable. Think about cognitive load. If you 00:12:11.899 --> 00:12:14.620 get a document and it's just a solid wall of 00:12:14.620 --> 00:12:18.480 text, size 8 font, margin set to zero, your eyes 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:21.279 just glaze over. You can't find the key information. 00:12:21.539 --> 00:12:23.919 You can't see the skills. You can't see the relevant 00:12:23.919 --> 00:12:26.970 job titles. It's just noise. So the industry 00:12:26.970 --> 00:12:29.769 resume is really more like a marketing flyer. 00:12:29.809 --> 00:12:32.850 That's a perfect analogy. It's a flyer. It highlights 00:12:32.850 --> 00:12:35.850 only the experience, the education, and the skills 00:12:35.850 --> 00:12:38.269 that are tailored to that specific position you're 00:12:38.269 --> 00:12:41.809 applying for. Less is more. Precisely. In the 00:12:41.809 --> 00:12:44.210 corporate world, brevity shows respect for the 00:12:44.210 --> 00:12:47.190 reader's time. It also shows an ability to prioritize 00:12:47.190 --> 00:12:50.389 information, which is a key executive function. 00:12:50.470 --> 00:12:53.009 It says, I know it's important here, and I'm 00:12:53.009 --> 00:12:55.159 only going to show you that. OK, now let's pivot 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.580 to the academic CV, because if the corporate 00:12:57.580 --> 00:13:00.279 world is less is more, the academic world seems 00:13:00.279 --> 00:13:03.700 to be more is more. More is everything. The purpose 00:13:03.700 --> 00:13:05.960 of the academic CV is to provide a complete, 00:13:06.100 --> 00:13:08.500 exhaustive, unabridged history of your academic 00:13:08.500 --> 00:13:11.379 accomplishments. It is the literal realization 00:13:11.379 --> 00:13:13.659 of that Latin translation, the course of life. 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:15.679 So what goes in there that doesn't go on a resume? 00:13:16.139 --> 00:13:18.820 Oh, everything. Your detailed teaching experience, 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.940 every course you've ever taught with course numbers, 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.440 every research grant you've ever applied for, 00:13:24.539 --> 00:13:27.820 won, or even been a part of, every award, every 00:13:27.820 --> 00:13:29.940 presentation at every conference, every honor, 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:32.460 all your service to the university committee 00:13:32.460 --> 00:13:35.220 work, departmental duties, and most importantly, 00:13:35.440 --> 00:13:38.620 publications. It's publication. Every article, 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.500 every book chapter, every book review, even the 00:13:41.500 --> 00:13:43.360 ones from 20 years ago that you're not particularly 00:13:43.360 --> 00:13:45.990 proud of anymore. They all go on. And there's 00:13:45.990 --> 00:13:48.730 no page limit. There is no page limit. In fact, 00:13:48.809 --> 00:13:51.330 length is often seen as a proxy for seniority 00:13:51.330 --> 00:13:54.509 and for productivity. A short CV in academia 00:13:54.509 --> 00:13:57.590 can actually be seen as a sign of inexperience 00:13:57.590 --> 00:14:00.950 or, worse, inactivity. So if you're a tenured 00:14:00.950 --> 00:14:03.370 professor with a three -page CV, people are going 00:14:03.370 --> 00:14:05.009 to start asking questions. They're going to wonder 00:14:05.009 --> 00:14:06.769 what you've been doing for the last decade. It 00:14:06.769 --> 00:14:08.730 looks suspicious. This brings us back to that 00:14:08.730 --> 00:14:10.970 specific example from the source material that 00:14:10.970 --> 00:14:13.889 just... It blew my mind. It mentioned an academic 00:14:13.889 --> 00:14:17.789 CV that was 69 pages long. 69 pages. Just try 00:14:17.789 --> 00:14:19.590 to visualize that for a second. That is the size 00:14:19.590 --> 00:14:22.450 of a novella. Can you imagine being a recruiter 00:14:22.450 --> 00:14:25.190 at a tech startup? You open an application and 00:14:25.190 --> 00:14:28.490 you're greeted with a 69 page PDF. You delete 00:14:28.490 --> 00:14:30.830 it before you even got to page three. You would 00:14:30.830 --> 00:14:33.809 assume it was a prank or that the person is completely 00:14:33.809 --> 00:14:35.950 and utterly out of touch with reality. Right. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:38.919 But in a tenure review committee meeting, that 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:41.960 69 -page document is gold. It's the main event. 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:45.399 It is a testament to a career of relentless scholarly 00:14:45.399 --> 00:14:48.340 output. It reflects a completely different value 00:14:48.340 --> 00:14:51.039 system. In the corporate world, the key value 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:53.879 is, can you do this specific job for me right 00:14:53.879 --> 00:14:56.399 now? Right. It's about immediate utility. Yes. 00:14:56.500 --> 00:14:59.899 In academia, the value is, what have you contributed 00:14:59.899 --> 00:15:02.320 to the great body of human knowledge over your 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:05.360 entire lifetime? So the 69 pages isn't just a 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:07.379 list. It proves the depth. It proves you've been 00:15:07.379 --> 00:15:09.860 running the race, the curriculum for a very long 00:15:09.860 --> 00:15:12.059 time. And that you haven't stopped. It's an archive. 00:15:12.299 --> 00:15:15.139 It's a repository of a life's work. I love that 00:15:15.139 --> 00:15:17.240 distinction. One is a flyer. The other is an 00:15:17.240 --> 00:15:19.720 archive. But speaking of archives and, you know, 00:15:19.720 --> 00:15:22.120 dusty academic traditions, we have to talk about 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.940 the grammar. Because nothing says I'm smart like 00:15:24.940 --> 00:15:27.360 correcting someone's Latin. And nothing says 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.840 oops like getting that correction wrong. Exactly. 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:33.159 Welcome to segment three, the grammar corner. 00:15:33.379 --> 00:15:36.539 Ah, the plural trap. This is a classic. It's 00:15:36.539 --> 00:15:38.139 the kind of thing that gets debated at faculty 00:15:38.139 --> 00:15:39.960 cocktail parties, probably after the second glass 00:15:39.960 --> 00:15:42.179 of wine. Okay, so let's set it up. Curriculum 00:15:42.179 --> 00:15:46.120 vitae. Singular. One course of life. What is 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.720 the plural? If I am a hiring committee chair 00:15:48.720 --> 00:15:50.980 and I have a stack of these documents on my desk 00:15:50.980 --> 00:15:53.440 from different candidates, what do I have? If 00:15:53.440 --> 00:15:55.559 you want to be correct in both English and Latin, 00:15:55.720 --> 00:15:58.340 you have a stack of curricula vitae. Curricula 00:15:58.340 --> 00:16:00.980 vitae. Okay, so the first word becomes plural, 00:16:01.279 --> 00:16:04.279 curricula, and the second word, vitae, stays 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:06.879 exactly the same. That is correct. Curriculum 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:08.860 is a neuter noun and the second declension in 00:16:08.860 --> 00:16:11.639 Latin. The plural ends in A. It's a pattern you 00:16:11.639 --> 00:16:15.539 know from other words. Datum becomes data. Medium 00:16:15.539 --> 00:16:18.500 becomes media. And curriculum becomes curricula. 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:20.899 Okay, that part's easy enough, but why does vitae 00:16:20.899 --> 00:16:23.080 stay the same? That's the part that trips people 00:16:23.080 --> 00:16:26.960 up. Because vitae is, in the genitive case, it's 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.230 possessive. It means of life. So when you say 00:16:30.230 --> 00:16:32.629 curricula vitae, you're literally saying courses 00:16:32.629 --> 00:16:35.909 of life. The concept of life itself remains this 00:16:35.909 --> 00:16:38.450 singular abstract. You have multiple courses, 00:16:38.529 --> 00:16:41.210 but they are all courses of life. OK, that makes 00:16:41.210 --> 00:16:42.889 perfect sense. But this is where it gets tricky, 00:16:43.009 --> 00:16:46.629 right? Because sometimes people try to be a little 00:16:46.629 --> 00:16:48.570 too smart. They think, well, hold on. If I have 00:16:48.570 --> 00:16:51.350 multiple CVs from multiple people, surely there 00:16:51.350 --> 00:16:53.370 are multiple lives involved. It's a logical leap. 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:56.279 I have Bob's life and Alice's life and Steve's 00:16:56.279 --> 00:16:58.580 life. Multiple lives. So they decide to pluralize 00:16:58.580 --> 00:17:01.080 the second word too. They say curricula vitarum. 00:17:01.480 --> 00:17:03.960 Vitarum. Vitarum. What does that mean exactly? 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.619 So vitarum is the genitive plural of vita, means 00:17:06.619 --> 00:17:09.680 of lives. So curricula vitarum would literally 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.859 translate to courses of lives. Now that sounds 00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:15.680 technically accurate. If I have Bob's CV and 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.559 Alice's CV on my desk, those represent two different 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.539 lives. It is technically grammatical in Latin, 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:24.230 yes. If Cicero were talking about the different 00:17:24.230 --> 00:17:27.109 life paths of different Roman senators, he might 00:17:27.109 --> 00:17:29.950 use that construction. But the source material 00:17:29.950 --> 00:17:34.170 identifies this as a hyper -correction based 00:17:34.170 --> 00:17:38.349 on superficial knowledge of Latin. Ouch. Superficial 00:17:38.349 --> 00:17:40.609 knowledge. That is a sick burn coming from a 00:17:40.609 --> 00:17:42.990 dictionary source. It's a brutal takedown. It's 00:17:42.990 --> 00:17:45.640 basically a trap for the pretentious. Because 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:47.619 while it is technically acceptable if you're 00:17:47.619 --> 00:17:49.640 referring to a group of CVs belonging to different 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:53.400 people, it is arguably incorrect in standard 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.119 modern usage. Why? Because it draws attention 00:17:56.119 --> 00:17:58.140 to the grammar rather than the document itself. 00:17:58.240 --> 00:18:00.839 It's fussy. In standard usage, the usage that's 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:02.740 recorded in Merriam -Webster and the Oxford English 00:18:02.740 --> 00:18:05.700 Dictionary and American Heritage is always curricula 00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:08.480 vitae. So the advice here is don't try to be 00:18:08.480 --> 00:18:10.359 the smartest person in the room by dropping a 00:18:10.359 --> 00:18:12.740 Vitarum. You'll just look like a show -off who 00:18:12.740 --> 00:18:15.339 might actually be wrong. Exactly. It's the linguistic 00:18:15.339 --> 00:18:18.220 equivalent of wearing a tuxedo to a casual lunch. 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:20.680 Yes, you're technically dressed well, but you 00:18:20.680 --> 00:18:23.480 just look ridiculous. Stick to curricula vitae. 00:18:23.519 --> 00:18:25.960 Or if you want to be really safe and modern, 00:18:26.019 --> 00:18:29.839 just say CVs. CVs works. We like CVs. It's democratic. 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.710 It's easy. But let's move on from the grammar 00:18:32.710 --> 00:18:35.970 of the past to the structure of the future, because 00:18:35.970 --> 00:18:38.130 even though we just marveled at that 69 page 00:18:38.130 --> 00:18:41.069 list of publications, it turns out that the academic 00:18:41.069 --> 00:18:43.609 world itself is actually starting to rebel against 00:18:43.609 --> 00:18:46.619 the list format. This is a really fascinating 00:18:46.619 --> 00:18:48.420 development and it's happening right now at segment 00:18:48.420 --> 00:18:51.299 four, the evolution of the CV. We are seeing 00:18:51.299 --> 00:18:54.259 a major shift toward the narrative. Right. Because 00:18:54.259 --> 00:18:56.660 the problem with a list, even a 69 -page list, 00:18:56.880 --> 00:18:59.140 is that it's just raw data. It doesn't tell a 00:18:59.140 --> 00:19:01.700 story. It has no soul. Exactly. A traditional 00:19:01.700 --> 00:19:04.240 academic CV is just a long list of publications, 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:06.579 grants, and citations. It's basically just counting 00:19:06.579 --> 00:19:09.460 beans. I wrote 50 papers. Okay, great. But did 00:19:09.460 --> 00:19:11.740 anyone actually read them? Did they change public 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:14.640 policy? Did they help a community? A list can't 00:19:14.640 --> 00:19:15.890 answer that. answer that question. It measures 00:19:15.890 --> 00:19:18.029 output, not outcome. Perfectly put. It measures 00:19:18.029 --> 00:19:21.849 quantity, not quality or impact. So to fix this, 00:19:21.990 --> 00:19:24.250 enter the responsible research movement. What 00:19:24.250 --> 00:19:26.250 is that? It's a global movement, particularly 00:19:26.250 --> 00:19:28.970 strong in the sciences and medicine. And the 00:19:28.970 --> 00:19:31.890 goal is to shift the focus of evaluation. They 00:19:31.890 --> 00:19:34.210 want to emphasize the societal relevance of research, 00:19:34.430 --> 00:19:37.329 of teaching, of outreach, rather than just counting 00:19:37.329 --> 00:19:39.390 how many citations you have in a database. They 00:19:39.390 --> 00:19:42.130 want to know, so what? That's the core question. 00:19:42.309 --> 00:19:45.680 So what? You discovered a new protein. Fantastic. 00:19:46.039 --> 00:19:48.819 So what? Who does that help? How does that move 00:19:48.819 --> 00:19:51.259 science forward? How does it benefit society? 00:19:51.740 --> 00:19:53.680 And this isn't just some vague philosophical 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.319 idea. This is actually being implemented by major 00:19:56.319 --> 00:19:59.240 institutions. The source mentions a very specific, 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:03.259 very recent event, October 2024. The Canadian 00:20:03.259 --> 00:20:05.859 case study. This is a huge deal for anyone in 00:20:05.859 --> 00:20:07.519 the research world in Canada, and it's being 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:10.039 watched globally. The government of Canada's 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:12.059 main research councils, we call them the tri 00:20:12.059 --> 00:20:15.240 -agency, it's NSERC for science and engineering, 00:20:15.579 --> 00:20:18.619 SSHRC for social sciences and humanities, and 00:20:18.619 --> 00:20:21.220 CIHR for health research. The big three. The 00:20:21.220 --> 00:20:23.500 big three. They announced a transition to a brand 00:20:23.500 --> 00:20:26.019 new CV template for all funding applications. 00:20:26.500 --> 00:20:28.460 And what's the big change in this new template? 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:31.099 They're now allowing a free -form narrative personal 00:20:31.099 --> 00:20:33.759 statement. A narrative personal statement. So 00:20:33.759 --> 00:20:35.480 instead of just bullet points of your achievements, 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:37.440 you get to write paragraphs. You get to actually 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:39.980 tell a story. You get to explain who you are 00:20:39.980 --> 00:20:42.599 as a researcher and why your work matters. And 00:20:42.599 --> 00:20:44.900 this isn't happening in a vacuum. It aligns perfectly 00:20:44.900 --> 00:20:47.099 with trends we're seeing in the U .S., with the 00:20:47.099 --> 00:20:49.859 National Institutes of Health, the NIH, and in 00:20:49.859 --> 00:20:51.500 the U .K. with U .K. Research and Innovation. 00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:54.740 The whole world of science funding is moving 00:20:54.740 --> 00:20:57.480 away from bean counting. Why is this such a game 00:20:57.480 --> 00:21:00.140 changer? It sounds subtle, but it feels big. 00:21:00.420 --> 00:21:03.000 It's huge because it fundamentally changes how 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:05.480 we value things like soft skills and specialized 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:07.940 training, even in the hard sciences. Let me give 00:21:07.940 --> 00:21:10.519 you an example. Please. In a traditional list 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:14.220 -based CV, let's say you spent three years mentoring 00:21:14.220 --> 00:21:16.299 underprivileged high school students in a science 00:21:16.299 --> 00:21:19.170 lab. That might just be one line item. It says, 00:21:19.289 --> 00:21:24.029 Mentor STEM Outreach Program 2021 -2024. It looks 00:21:24.029 --> 00:21:25.750 exactly the same as someone who just showed up 00:21:25.750 --> 00:21:27.990 once a year for a photo op. Right. The list just 00:21:27.990 --> 00:21:30.009 flattens the experience completely. It strips 00:21:30.009 --> 00:21:32.980 it of all meaning. Exactly. But in a narrative 00:21:32.980 --> 00:21:36.180 format, you can explain the impact of that mentorship. 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:39.500 You can say, I mentored three students from underrepresented 00:21:39.500 --> 00:21:42.319 backgrounds. I developed a specific training 00:21:42.319 --> 00:21:45.160 protocol for them. And they have now all gone 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:47.880 on to pursue science degrees at university with 00:21:47.880 --> 00:21:51.220 one winning a national scholarship. Wow. That's 00:21:51.220 --> 00:21:53.180 a totally different story. It's a different world. 00:21:53.579 --> 00:21:55.819 You can explain how your own unique background 00:21:55.819 --> 00:21:58.079 influences the kind of research questions you 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:01.099 ask. It humanizes the researcher. It moves from 00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:03.980 just what have you done, which is the list to 00:22:03.980 --> 00:22:06.099 who are you and why does it matter, which is 00:22:06.099 --> 00:22:08.279 the narrative. It allows for a much more holistic 00:22:08.279 --> 00:22:11.279 view of a course of life. It's almost like the 00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:14.079 original definition of curriculum vitae is finally 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.480 coming true after all these years. It's becoming 00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:18.579 a biography again, not just a receipt of your 00:22:18.579 --> 00:22:20.559 academic transactions. That's a beautiful way 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:23.539 to put it. It's becoming a biography. But of 00:22:23.539 --> 00:22:25.619 course, the CV is just the entry ticket, right? 00:22:25.740 --> 00:22:28.019 Once you hand it over, whether it's a narrative 00:22:28.019 --> 00:22:31.200 or a 69 -page list, you then enter the actual 00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:33.420 workplace. And this brings us to segment five. 00:22:33.960 --> 00:22:36.619 the vocabulary of the modern workplace this was 00:22:36.619 --> 00:22:38.279 my favorite part of the source material it's 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:40.380 like we're moving from the document itself to 00:22:40.380 --> 00:22:43.000 the world of work that that document grants you 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:46.660 access to the c also and classifications sections 00:22:46.660 --> 00:22:49.500 in the source provided this incredible taxonomy 00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:53.220 of modern employment that is frankly it's a little 00:22:53.220 --> 00:22:55.470 terrifying but also incredibly enlightening It 00:22:55.470 --> 00:22:58.089 reads like a dictionary of modern despair with 00:22:58.089 --> 00:23:00.589 a few glimmers of gold thrown in. Let's start 00:23:00.589 --> 00:23:03.170 with the dark side because the source lists some 00:23:03.170 --> 00:23:06.369 terms that just perfectly define the modern struggle. 00:23:06.549 --> 00:23:10.589 First up, bore out. Yes, we all know burnout. 00:23:10.990 --> 00:23:13.430 Burnout is high -octane stress. It's too much 00:23:13.430 --> 00:23:15.910 work, too much pressure, it's adrenaline overload, 00:23:16.210 --> 00:23:18.509 and it's followed by complete collapse. Right. 00:23:18.650 --> 00:23:20.809 Bore -out is the polar opposite, but it's just 00:23:20.809 --> 00:23:23.569 as damaging. How so? It sounds almost relaxing 00:23:23.569 --> 00:23:26.210 to be bored at work. It's not. It's being so 00:23:26.210 --> 00:23:28.930 under -challenged, so profoundly bored, that 00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:31.549 it causes its own kind of stress, lethargy, and 00:23:31.549 --> 00:23:34.250 even depression. It's the awful feeling of knowing 00:23:34.250 --> 00:23:36.069 you have potential, knowing you have skills, 00:23:36.309 --> 00:23:38.509 but you are stuck in a role where you do absolutely 00:23:38.509 --> 00:23:41.099 nothing of value. It's that feeling of just staring 00:23:41.099 --> 00:23:43.619 at the clock, watching the minutes tick by, and 00:23:43.619 --> 00:23:45.619 knowing that your skills and your brain are just 00:23:45.619 --> 00:23:48.779 rotting away. Exactly. It's an attack on your 00:23:48.779 --> 00:23:52.220 self -worth. Yeah. It forces you to ask, if I'm 00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:55.000 doing nothing of value all day, am I valuable? 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:57.960 And it often leads directly to another term on 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:02.130 the list, presenteeism. Prisontism. OK, so that's 00:24:02.130 --> 00:24:04.210 being at work, but not really being there. Is 00:24:04.210 --> 00:24:06.750 that right? Correct. It's the act of being physically 00:24:06.750 --> 00:24:08.910 present at your desk, you know, showing your 00:24:08.910 --> 00:24:11.529 face, but not actually functioning. Maybe you're 00:24:11.529 --> 00:24:13.390 sick and you should be home. Maybe you're distracted 00:24:13.390 --> 00:24:15.829 by a family issue or maybe you're just suffering 00:24:15.829 --> 00:24:19.109 from intense bore out. But you are there physically 00:24:19.109 --> 00:24:21.990 adding zero value just to keep your seat warm. 00:24:22.089 --> 00:24:24.190 Because the culture demands it. If I can't see 00:24:24.190 --> 00:24:26.309 you at your desk, you must not be working. Exactly. 00:24:26.390 --> 00:24:29.450 It's a total failure of management. It prioritizes 00:24:29.450 --> 00:24:31.769 the appearance of work over the actual output 00:24:31.769 --> 00:24:33.690 of work. Which, of course, feeds into the dread. 00:24:34.190 --> 00:24:36.710 Which brings us to the next term, the source 00:24:36.710 --> 00:24:40.579 lists. The Sunday Scaries. A very modern term 00:24:40.579 --> 00:24:44.059 for a very age -old feeling. It's that specific 00:24:44.059 --> 00:24:46.900 sense of dread that you experience on a Sunday 00:24:46.900 --> 00:24:49.339 afternoon or evening right before the work week 00:24:49.339 --> 00:24:51.319 starts again. I think every single person has 00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:53.660 felt that. The sun starts to go down on Sunday 00:24:53.660 --> 00:24:56.759 and your stomach just drops. It's the anticipation 00:24:56.759 --> 00:24:59.880 of the loss of freedom. It's the knowledge that 00:24:59.880 --> 00:25:01.900 the cycle is about to begin again. And maybe 00:25:01.900 --> 00:25:03.519 you have the Sunday scaries because you know 00:25:03.519 --> 00:25:06.019 you're going back to a toxic workplace. The source 00:25:06.019 --> 00:25:08.119 actually lists some specific toxic behaviors. 00:25:08.380 --> 00:25:10.619 My favorite, or I guess my least favorite, was 00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:14.339 kiss up, kick down. Oh, that is a very specific 00:25:14.339 --> 00:25:17.420 and a very nasty personality type. It's the classic 00:25:17.420 --> 00:25:20.740 middle manager who is just incredibly charming 00:25:20.740 --> 00:25:23.700 and obsequious to their superiors. Kissing up. 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:26.119 Yes. They bring the boss coffee. They laugh at 00:25:26.119 --> 00:25:29.970 all their jokes. They are abusive and tyrannical 00:25:29.970 --> 00:25:32.049 to their own subordinates. They're kicking down. 00:25:32.250 --> 00:25:34.289 It's the worst kind of co -worker because if 00:25:34.289 --> 00:25:36.150 you try to complain to the boss, the boss just 00:25:36.150 --> 00:25:37.670 says, what are you talking about? Steve is great. 00:25:37.730 --> 00:25:40.470 He's my right hand man. Exactly. The toxicity 00:25:40.470 --> 00:25:43.190 is completely hidden from above and it's directed 00:25:43.190 --> 00:25:46.289 entirely below. And the fact that this behavior 00:25:46.289 --> 00:25:49.170 has its own specific category in the C also list 00:25:49.170 --> 00:25:53.049 suggests it is far, far too common in corporate 00:25:53.049 --> 00:25:55.930 structures. It must be. And it might be related 00:25:55.930 --> 00:25:58.349 to two other really heavy terms that were listed, 00:25:58.569 --> 00:26:01.190 narcissism in the workplace and psychopathy in 00:26:01.190 --> 00:26:04.269 the workplace. Whoa. Yeah, those are heavy clinical 00:26:04.269 --> 00:26:06.150 terms to just be thrown around in an article 00:26:06.150 --> 00:26:08.230 about employment. They are, but it's telling 00:26:08.230 --> 00:26:10.430 that they're there. It's very telling, but they 00:26:10.430 --> 00:26:13.269 are relevant. Because corporate structures, unfortunately, 00:26:13.589 --> 00:26:16.150 can sometimes reward those traits. The ability 00:26:16.150 --> 00:26:18.890 to charm up and kick down, a lack of empathy, 00:26:19.109 --> 00:26:22.549 a laser focus on personal gain. Those can get 00:26:22.549 --> 00:26:24.640 you promoted. at least in the short term. So 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:26.720 the source listing them as see -all -store categories 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:29.059 suggests there's a significant amount of literature 00:26:29.059 --> 00:26:31.079 out there connecting these personality disorders 00:26:31.079 --> 00:26:33.839 to organizational structures. And to what we 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:36.299 often call success. That is genuinely terrifying. 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:38.579 So the system might actually be selecting for 00:26:38.579 --> 00:26:41.859 psychopaths. In some hyper -competitive, results 00:26:41.859 --> 00:26:44.059 -at -any -cost environments. It's certainly a 00:26:44.059 --> 00:26:47.450 well -documented risk. And if you are stuck under 00:26:47.450 --> 00:26:50.009 one of those people doing work that feels completely 00:26:50.009 --> 00:26:53.109 meaningless, you might have what the source calls 00:26:53.109 --> 00:26:57.089 a bullshit job. This is a concept that was popularized 00:26:57.089 --> 00:27:00.609 by the anthropologist David Graeber. A bullshit 00:27:00.609 --> 00:27:03.849 job is a job that is so pointless, so utterly 00:27:03.849 --> 00:27:07.089 unnecessary, that even the person doing it feels 00:27:07.089 --> 00:27:09.609 deep down that it shouldn't exist. It's different 00:27:09.609 --> 00:27:12.089 from just a bad job, right? A hard job. Oh, completely 00:27:12.089 --> 00:27:15.230 different. A bad job like cleaning sewers or 00:27:15.230 --> 00:27:17.630 collecting garbage or being a nurse is necessary. 00:27:17.849 --> 00:27:20.490 It's hard work. It might be unpleasant. But if 00:27:20.490 --> 00:27:22.890 those people stop doing it, society collapses. 00:27:22.930 --> 00:27:26.049 Those are vital jobs. A bullshit job is, you 00:27:26.049 --> 00:27:28.029 know, ticking boxes on forms that will never 00:27:28.029 --> 00:27:30.269 be read, compiling reports that go straight into 00:27:30.269 --> 00:27:32.279 the digital shredder. It's being a corporate 00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:34.519 lawyer whose only real job is to create work 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:36.180 for another corporate lawyer. It must create 00:27:36.180 --> 00:27:39.099 this deep sense of existential despair. I am 00:27:39.099 --> 00:27:41.759 wasting the only life I have. Exactly. Humans 00:27:41.759 --> 00:27:44.680 have a fundamental need to feel useful. Bullshit 00:27:44.680 --> 00:27:47.380 jobs are a direct assault on that need. Now contrast 00:27:47.380 --> 00:27:51.289 that with the McJob. The McJob. A term that was 00:27:51.289 --> 00:27:54.130 popularized by the author Douglas Coupland and 00:27:54.130 --> 00:27:56.630 then really cemented by McDonald's, much to their 00:27:56.630 --> 00:28:00.390 annoyance. I'm sure. It refers to low pay, low 00:28:00.390 --> 00:28:04.509 prestige, low prospect work. But unlike the bullshit 00:28:04.509 --> 00:28:07.269 job, the McJobe is usually doing something real. 00:28:07.450 --> 00:28:10.250 You're serving food. You're doing actual labor. 00:28:10.490 --> 00:28:13.250 That's true. But it's characterized by the lack 00:28:13.250 --> 00:28:16.630 of a future. It's a dead end. It's viewed by 00:28:16.630 --> 00:28:19.250 society as a temporary station, not as a career. 00:28:19.470 --> 00:28:21.589 It lacks dignity. Okay, now let's look at the 00:28:21.589 --> 00:28:23.609 other end of the spectrum. The people who are 00:28:23.609 --> 00:28:26.349 definitely not working McJobs. The golden terms. 00:28:26.509 --> 00:28:29.630 Ah, yes. The exit strategies of the elite. First, 00:28:29.670 --> 00:28:31.569 we have the golden handshake. That's it. A very 00:28:31.569 --> 00:28:33.309 generous severance package. It's essentially, 00:28:33.450 --> 00:28:35.609 we want you to leave, so here's a giant pile 00:28:35.609 --> 00:28:38.250 of money to go away quietly and not sue us. Must 00:28:38.250 --> 00:28:40.049 be nice. Here's a million dollars. Please stop 00:28:40.049 --> 00:28:41.930 coming to work. Right. And then you have the 00:28:41.930 --> 00:28:43.990 golden parachute. Which is even better, I assume. 00:28:44.509 --> 00:28:47.410 It's more specific. That is protection for executives. 00:28:47.670 --> 00:28:50.589 Yeah. Usually the top level C -suite during a 00:28:50.589 --> 00:28:53.650 merger or a dismissal. If the company gets bought 00:28:53.650 --> 00:28:55.650 out and they're fired, or if they run the company 00:28:55.650 --> 00:28:57.609 into the ground and get pushed out by the board. 00:28:57.730 --> 00:28:59.950 They still get paid. They deploy the golden parachute 00:28:59.950 --> 00:29:02.470 and they float gently down to safety on a cushion 00:29:02.470 --> 00:29:04.849 of millions and millions of dollars. While all 00:29:04.849 --> 00:29:07.730 the workers below them might be facing mass layoffs. 00:29:07.849 --> 00:29:10.460 Or facing life as part of the precariat. This 00:29:10.460 --> 00:29:13.200 is a really important socioeconomic concept, 00:29:13.299 --> 00:29:15.799 the source highlighted, precariat. I feel like 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:17.599 this is a term we are going to hear more and 00:29:17.599 --> 00:29:20.140 more in the coming years. I think so, too. It's 00:29:20.140 --> 00:29:23.539 a portmanteau. It blends precarious and proletariat. 00:29:23.619 --> 00:29:26.680 It describes a new and growing social class of 00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:29.380 people who are living with deeply unstable employment. 00:29:29.920 --> 00:29:33.559 Think gig workers, zero -hour contracts, temporary 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:37.190 staff. So this is not the traditional working 00:29:37.190 --> 00:29:40.289 class with unions and pensions and job security. 00:29:40.730 --> 00:29:43.730 No. They have no security. They have no predictability. 00:29:43.950 --> 00:29:45.630 They often don't know if they're going to have 00:29:45.630 --> 00:29:48.569 work next week. They're always one missed paycheck 00:29:48.569 --> 00:29:51.349 away from disaster. They live in a constant state 00:29:51.349 --> 00:29:54.210 of precariousness. Which leads, I think, to the 00:29:54.210 --> 00:29:58.450 final dark term on the list, wage slavery. A 00:29:58.450 --> 00:30:01.359 very provocative term, but one with... deep historical 00:30:01.359 --> 00:30:04.559 roots in labor movements. It describes the condition 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:06.799 where a person's livelihood depends entirely 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:10.859 on wages, usually immediate wages, drawing parallels 00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:13.619 to a lack of genuine freedom. The argument being, 00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:16.460 if you cannot afford to stop working for even 00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:18.660 a day without risking starvation or addiction, 00:30:18.940 --> 00:30:21.740 are you truly free? It's a heavy question. It 00:30:21.740 --> 00:30:23.839 challenges the whole notion of what we call free 00:30:23.839 --> 00:30:26.079 labor. It does. And it all circles back to this 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:29.220 one document, doesn't it? The CV. Yeah. The resume. 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:31.960 It's the tool we use to try to escape the precariat, 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.759 to avoid the McJobe, to hopefully one day find 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:36.759 a golden handshake, or at the very least, just 00:30:36.759 --> 00:30:39.400 avoid the Sunday scaries. It is the currency 00:30:39.400 --> 00:30:42.579 of this entire brutal ecosystem. It's the ticket 00:30:42.579 --> 00:30:44.500 you hope will get you out of the hole. Or at 00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:46.940 least we hope it is. We have covered a lot of 00:30:46.940 --> 00:30:49.220 ground today. We started with the Latin roots, 00:30:49.380 --> 00:30:53.099 the curriculum vitae, the course of life. We 00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:56.160 debated the pronunciation. Is it Vitae or is 00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.460 it Weetai? We did. And we navigated the geography 00:30:59.460 --> 00:31:02.200 of the Great Atlantic Divide. The short, punchy 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:05.480 U .S. resume versus the sprawling global CV. 00:31:05.680 --> 00:31:08.720 The six second scan versus the 69 page archive. 00:31:08.980 --> 00:31:11.259 We learned about the grammar trap of curricula 00:31:11.259 --> 00:31:13.920 vitae. Don't do it, folks. Just say CVs. It's 00:31:13.920 --> 00:31:16.750 easier for everyone. Please. And we saw the potential 00:31:16.750 --> 00:31:19.329 future in the Canadian Narrative CV, this big 00:31:19.329 --> 00:31:23.049 shift from just lists to actual stories. And 00:31:23.049 --> 00:31:26.230 finally, we explored the... Well, the terrifying 00:31:26.230 --> 00:31:29.069 vocabulary of the modern workplace from bore 00:31:29.069 --> 00:31:31.869 out and bullshit jobs all the way up to golden 00:31:31.869 --> 00:31:34.049 parachutes. It really highlights that this piece 00:31:34.049 --> 00:31:36.650 of paper or this PDF file on your computer is 00:31:36.650 --> 00:31:39.150 just an entry ticket. It gets you into this incredibly 00:31:39.150 --> 00:31:42.130 complex ecosystem of gold collars, pink collars, 00:31:42.130 --> 00:31:44.569 gig workers and knowledge workers. It does. And 00:31:44.569 --> 00:31:46.809 it really forces us to ask, what are we actually 00:31:46.809 --> 00:31:49.109 presenting to the world with this document? What 00:31:49.109 --> 00:31:51.150 story are we telling? Which brings us to our 00:31:51.150 --> 00:31:53.769 final thought. The source mentioned two other 00:31:53.769 --> 00:31:56.009 interesting see -also terms that we didn't quite 00:31:56.009 --> 00:32:00.430 get to, resume fraud and video resumes. Both 00:32:00.430 --> 00:32:03.470 are rising trends. One is about deception. The 00:32:03.470 --> 00:32:06.250 other is about performance. So as we move toward 00:32:06.250 --> 00:32:08.210 these narrative formats and as we start using 00:32:08.210 --> 00:32:10.829 video to apply for jobs, you know, TikTok resumes 00:32:10.829 --> 00:32:13.490 are a real thing now. Are we actually moving 00:32:13.490 --> 00:32:16.650 closer to the truth of who a candidate is or 00:32:16.650 --> 00:32:18.690 are we just getting better at rewarding the best 00:32:18.690 --> 00:32:20.910 storytellers? That is the fundamental danger, 00:32:21.089 --> 00:32:23.329 isn't it? A list of facts like on the old CV 00:32:23.329 --> 00:32:26.029 is hard to spin. You either won the award or 00:32:26.029 --> 00:32:27.670 you didn't. You either published the paper or 00:32:27.670 --> 00:32:30.490 you didn't. A narrative. That's pure spin. That's 00:32:30.490 --> 00:32:32.869 rhetoric. So we might be moving from an era of 00:32:32.869 --> 00:32:36.309 who did the most work to a new era of who tells 00:32:36.309 --> 00:32:38.710 the best story about their work. Which is a valuable 00:32:38.710 --> 00:32:41.069 skill in itself, don't get me wrong, but it's 00:32:41.069 --> 00:32:43.150 maybe not the number one skill we want to prioritize 00:32:43.150 --> 00:32:46.579 when we're hiring, say, a brain surgeon. Exactly. 00:32:46.579 --> 00:32:50.339 And if the plural of curriculum is curricula, 00:32:50.380 --> 00:32:53.039 meaning courses, maybe we're focusing too much 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:56.000 on the course, the list, the race, the steps 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.279 we've taken. And in this new narrative world, 00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.299 we're still losing sight of the vitae. The life. 00:33:01.420 --> 00:33:03.420 The actual life behind the document. The human 00:33:03.420 --> 00:33:06.940 being. That is what matters. Something to think 00:33:06.940 --> 00:33:08.720 about the next time you have to update that file 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:11.059 on your computer. Thanks for listening to The 00:33:11.059 --> 00:33:12.519 Deep Dive. See you next time.