I get several job offers from all around the world through Linkedin weekly. Colleagues from the same office who are equally skilled and have a similar experience, but do not have LinkedIn and other networks, get 0. Go figure...
Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employment chances?
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#42I get several job offers from all around the world through Linkedin weekly. Colleagues from the same office who are equally skilled and have a similar experience, but do not have LinkedIn and other networks, get 0. Go figure...
How many do you accept every week?
Re: Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employment chances?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It varies pretty wildly. A friend of my mother applied for a job doing clerical work at the city police station, and one of the conditions of hiring was surrendering her Facebook password. For some reason I'll never understand (she didn't need the job, just wanted something to do during the day), she took the job.
> one of the conditions of hiring was surrendering her Facebook password. Is that even legal? How? Why?
Sharing the password to a Facebook account against their TOS anyway. https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms Section 4, bullet 8.
Re: Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employment chances?
#44I think it does harm you not to have a profile, but only indirectly. Employers will search for you. Having no profile means you're missing out on an opportunity to make an impression before the interview - candidates with posts about things they find interesting in job-related fields, or status updates that make them look like sociable, interesting people, will benefit from that. Having no profile puts you behind tho…
"Employers will search for you." I said this in a separate comment, but I want to read this here, in response to what you said. In the last 10 years, I've never had an employer search for me online. Never.
Just because they don't tell you that they read your blog posts or searched for your accounts doesn't mean they didn't…