If you’ve been on social media lately, the message is loud and clear: The market is tight. Jobs are disappearing. Competition is impossible. When the world yells scarcity, our natural instinct is to shrink, to take the first role we can find even if it doesn't fit.
But at oyster, we know the truth: Abundance isn’t about the number of jobs available; it’s about the visibility of the right ones.
The Periphery Problem
Most of us navigate our careers based on what is in our immediate line of sight. We look at the Big 10 companies everyone talks about, the three industries our friends and family work in, and the generic titles LinkedIn pushes to our feed.
- The Bubble Effect: Traditional algorithms reinforce your existing network. If you don’t know someone in Gaming, Social Entrepreneurship, or Pathology, those worlds literally do not exist in your digital periphery.
- The Zero Platform Gap: Our research of over ~100 user interviews shows there are currently zero platforms effectively solving the career navigation problem for people lost in fragmented, performative networks. You aren’t seeing a scarcity of jobs; you’re seeing a scarcity of tools that help you find the right organizations and career connections.
Shift Your Orbit: From Scarcity to Discovery
The right organizations and the right people are out there. Navigating a vast, ever-changing careerscape is the hard part and that’s exactly where oyster changes the math. We turn finding the needle in a haystack into a curated experience.
- Expand Your Periphery (Discover Search): Stop searching by role (e.g. Marketing Manager) and start searching by interests and skills (e.g. marketing campaigns, data analytics, brand innovation). Our search engine helps you discover curated organizations and individuals that career platforms today could never generate.
- Validate Your Curiosity (The Pivot Search): If you're feeling stuck in a particular industry, try our Pivot Search to see where others from your industry pivoted. Entering a pivot like Consulting ➔ Gaming Data Science will show you that there is someone out there who has made that move you've been thinking of. It also shows how the pool of roles operating at the trifecta (what you like, what you are good at, and where the market is headed) is broader than you think.
- See It to Believe It: Nothing kills the scarcity mindset faster than an oyster 1:1 Chat. Talking to a real person thriving in a niche role you’re curious about shows you the abundance is real. Uncover how that person got to their current role, what skill sets they use on a day-to-day basis, and insight into the work culture to validate whether or not this is the next step for you.
The Science of Career Discovery
There's a general sentiment today that finding a great job is 90% luck. We disagree. At oyster, we’ve turned the career search into a science. By using an intelligent matchmaking engine fueled by your full human profile, we pull seemingly out-of-reach career trajectories directly into your orbit to get you feeling empowered and inspired.
The world of work is shifting in profound, exciting ways. 36% of the workforce are independent workers and 71% of employees are always open to new opportunities. Not to mention, new organizations and roles we’ve never heard of are opening every day.
The Bottom Line
1. Don’t let a scarcity inducing headline dictate your journey. Opportunities aren’t missing; they’re just waiting to be discovered.
2. Stop shrinking career potential and start expanding it on oyster. Sign up for oyster today:
https://oyster.thekindsocialmediacompany.com
