meat market for talent
- noun
- Offensive
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mercado laboral deshumanizado
- The job fair felt like a meat market for talent, with recruiters quickly sizing up each resume.
Examples
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More and more, graduate recruitment events have become a meat market for talent rather than a place for thoughtful discussion.
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He was discouraged by the meat market for talent that greeted him at the networking session.
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It's a meat market for talent!
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The job fair felt like a meat market for talent.
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He was discouraged by the meat market for talent that greeted him at the networking session.
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More and more, graduate recruitment events have become a meat market for talent rather than a place for thoughtful discussion.
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The job fair felt like a meat market for talent, with recruiters quickly sizing up each resume.
Synonyms
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A system where employers find workers and people look for jobs
A workplace where people focus on moving up in their jobs more than other things
How Competitive
- Offensive
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The core element 'market for talent' is compositional and would be understood as a place where talent is traded, but the modifier 'meat' introduces a metaphorical, objectifying sense (treating people/talent as commodities) that is not directly deducible from the literal words. The metaphor is somewhat inferable (meat → commodity/object) but requires cultural or idiomatic knowledge to recover the evaluative meaning, so it is partially but not fully transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Meat market for talent comes from the image of a busy meat market where buyers quickly pick pieces of meat. When people with talent are treated the same way, looked at and chosen fast and without care, it means a 'competitive, impersonal place'.