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Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by borplk »

tapeleg wrote: post #20

Career and social life should be completely and utterly separated. The content on your social media page should have no bearing on your ability to perform the job at hand. Quite honestly, an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place. Especially true in the realm of IT, where there just simply ar…

> an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place.

Companies aren't going to ignore "free information available at your fingertips" about the candidates they hire.

For example a problem candidate may have easily accessible "red flags" on their social media such as racist stuff and drug use.

They could "save" themselves some costs and future problems by knowing that ahead of time.

When companies are trying to optimise their hiring process they aren't going to ignore free additional information about the candidates, they want every last piece they can get their hands on so they can (at least in their mind) make the optimal decision.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by justherefortart »

thisisit wrote: post #24
rhcom2 wrote: post #3

Is HN "social media"?

In some sense, yes. A friend of mine, once got obsessed over the karma he was generating on HN. Every two hours he would check his HN profile, just to see if his karma had increased or not.

What does karma do for you here?

I still can't downvote so it seems pointless.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by sergefaguet »

how about quit all news media including the New York Times?

NYT = same exact incentives as Facebook. plus constant exaggeration of threats and pushing irrelevant stuff outside of your control.

i honestly don't give a fuck what Kim Jong Un / Putin / Trump do because i can't change anything about them.

which makes the NYT an addictive waste of time very much like social media.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by ProAm »

tapeleg wrote: post #20

Career and social life should be completely and utterly separated. The content on your social media page should have no bearing on your ability to perform the job at hand. Quite honestly, an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place. Especially true in the realm of IT, where there just simply ar…

You know employers perform credit checks to perform the same 'character check' on you, if you have bad credit the chance of you getting a job offer goes down dramatically. Career growth is rarely based on job performance.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by simias »

tapeleg wrote: post #20

Career and social life should be completely and utterly separated. The content on your social media page should have no bearing on your ability to perform the job at hand. Quite honestly, an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place. Especially true in the realm of IT, where there just simply ar…

Now that most people have been taught to use their real identity on social media how can you meaningfully separate these things? The lines are even more blurred if you're applying for some social/RH position. Even for a coder you might want to google a bit to look for contributions to open source projects or mailing list posts since that can be a very good way to see how the person actually works and communicates.

While I believe that the big data giants like FB and Google ought to be better regulated I also think that you have to make the users aware of their responsibility. Don't put anything publicly online that you wouldn't be comfortable seeing in the front page of a newspaper. And do the same thing when posting pictures and videos of your friends and family. If you don't value your own privacy Facebook won't do it for you.

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by onychomys »

jiveturkey wrote: post #29
WhompingWindows wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How would you know if a potential employer does google-fu on you?

Take out an ad on your own name.

"Ask Onychomys the secret to getting hot singles in your area to date you!"

Re: Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It (2016)

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Post by PaulStatezny »

ProAm wrote: post #45
tapeleg wrote: post #20

Career and social life should be completely and utterly separated. The content on your social media page should have no bearing on your ability to perform the job at hand. Quite honestly, an employer that even looks at your social media profile to do a sort of casual "character check" on you, is not one that you should want to work for in the first place. Especially true in the realm of IT, where there just simply ar…

You know employers perform credit checks to perform the same 'character check' on you, if you have bad credit the chance of you getting a job offer goes down dramatically. Career growth is rarely based on job performance.

> Career growth is rarely based on job performance.

I hear what you’re saying about credit checks. But I think the sentence I quoted is a little too extreme. Performance usually plays a significant role. It’s just not the only factor.

Otherwise, (for example,) why is the careless, checked out teenager at a fast food joint not promoted to manager?

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