Have a personal web site
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Have a personal web site
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#2I've had a personal website online since around 1996.
I make sure its offensive and hilarious.
This is not a new issue lol.
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#3“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.”
Why is this a bad thing?
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#4“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.” Why is this a bad thing?
It's clearly a bad thing if one wasn't intending to be a ghost online.
I've run into this same issue as more and more internet interactions moved onto walled garden platforms, and an unfortunately-named programming language from the fruit company destroyed my previous decade of SEO...
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#5“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.” Why is this a bad thing?
Because hiring people is risky and expensive, so (all other things being equal) companies prefer candidates they know more about.
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#6I'm a similar "ghost", and with new projects in the works have been contemplating a big update to my own site. Thanks for the inspiration!
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#7> You should...
Except for all the reasons you shouldn't. The biggest reasons is that if putting up a website doesn't feel like a good use of time, it's probably better to just not have one.
An alternative way to think about it is this... is it a good business decision to de-prioritize talking to people who don't have a website? I'd be real surprised if the answer was yes.
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#8“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.” Why is this a bad thing?
Because hiring people is risky and expensive, so (all other things being equal) companies prefer candidates they know more about.
I was actually saying the opposite: the candidate was telling me that they'd looked up the folks on their interview panel, including me.
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#9“I like to look people up before an interview to try to get to know them a bit. You were a complete ghost online.” Why is this a bad thing?
Because hiring people is risky and expensive, so (all other things being equal) companies prefer candidates they know more about.
I get that, but the context from the article is that of an interviewee looking up the interviewer and commenting that the interviewer was a "ghost" online. To me, that's somewhat bizarre. What bearing does your interviewer's hobbies have on your perception of whether the company and the role would be a good fit for you?
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#10Don't see how you could be a ghost online with a name like Mark Christian. There would be a ton of Mark Christian's all vying for attention.