Unbanning Tinder and LinkedIn woes this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse
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his week, Profit tells you why it is time to unblock Tinder in Pakistan, not to swipe when you’re bored, nor to find the love of your life, but to find your next boss. We look at photos and who they exclude, the toxic mess that LinkedIn is quickly becoming, and the woes and benefits of online education. The pension time bomb Pakistan is facing also features. Along with this, Ariba Shahid brings you a lot more in this week’s social media roundup.
Fond of fonts
On online learning
We don’t know how true this statistic is, but we do know that it is true. Online classes are no fun and seem like a very expensive way to watch YouTube videos. An inefficient way as well given how much better the Indian youtube uncles are at explaining things. Think about it, when you spend on university you pay for the entire experience, something you don’t get over zoom at all. {Editor’s note: One of the editors of this piece claims that the best course they were a part of at university was Detective Fiction taught at LUMS taught by Professor Anam Haq - all over zoom. Goes to show that with the right professor and subject, online teaching can be done right. However, we doubt if any online business course anywhere could achieve the same effect }
Unblock Tinder please
Excuse us as we gag over the font in this document. They definitely need an introductory course to formatting documents. This is not how FBR documents are to look like, in fact this is not how any document is to look like. Imagine the cringe you’d have if we printed our magazines in this font.
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The job market is scary. Yes, we know. And we know LinkedIn is primarily for feeding your egos than for finding a job. So what is a person to do? Boast about credentials on Tinder in hopes of matching with your new boss. Downside is, Pakistanis can’t because Tinder is blocked here. Maybe this is the way we can get it unlocked. Because let’s face it, hunting for jobs on Bumble is even sadder than hunting for them on Tinder.
