How NFTs will change hiring • Hacker News Board

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by bsenftner » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 11:55 AM UTC

Closi wrote: post #16

thinkingemote wrote: post #7

Seems like the idea has nothing to do with NFT (idea = 'employment db is good'), but the author is selling his book / course on NFTs and is making the thread into an advert for his product. That sums up everything to do with NFTs for me. The smell remains rotten and I will, again, run away and fast.

Exactly - and this behaviour is a defining characteristic of blockchain technologies because of the money involved. I never see posts like “how event-sourcing will change hiring forever” but that’s just as valid from a technology perspective to meet the implied requirements.

If it has ANYTHING to do with cryptocurrency/blockchain you can be guaranteed the grifters are Everest high waiting for naive adoption to make them profits.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by zeckalpha » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 11:56 AM UTC

> No prejudice

Just the prejudice when adding events to the chain.

I suspect the author would be opposed to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by contravariant » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 11:56 AM UTC

thepangolino wrote: post #14

ravenstine wrote: post #11

EDIT: meh.

I think NTFs would make sense in some cases by providing a publick ledger of properties. It would avoid situations like that when a Luton man got his home stolen from him: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662

It wouldn't avoid it, it'd make it worse by not having a single way to override the ledger when it's clearly wrong.

None of the problems in that article were caused by having a hard to edit public ledger. In fact most problems were caused by it.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by thriftwy » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 11:57 AM UTC

You can also do a grab of all commits across known gitiverse.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by Ekaros » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:00 PM UTC

ssss11 wrote: post #4

I think plausibly your cv, recommendations from people and credentials could be listed on a Blockchain and verified by your id tied to it, but: - I don’t see why you need NFTs - I don’t see how it’s better than e.g LinkedIn. Or maybe it could be the back end to LI’s front end It’s really a distributed way of storing your cv - how does that benefit your job search? One comment in the thread was that employers would se…

Why do we even need NFT or blockchain? Couldn't we just have some open standard and maybe PGP for endorsements? Now generating chain from PGP might be bit more tricky, but I don't see blockchains or NFTs adding anything extra.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by jacobclaerhout » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:01 PM UTC

iovrthoughtthis wrote: post #9

i don't like it. largely because: 1. its focussed on "how" we hire, not "why" we hire which seems like a red flag for me. 2. it's a human - human interaction. all the humans involved should consent to it, requiring a human decision which must be done at human speeds. 3. people, their skills and interests change. we forgive and forget. success is chancy and sparse. the block chain is immutable. 4. the vision of the fu…

Agree with some of the points here. In my mind some of the company-sided dynamics he sketches can serve as a way to do better talent discovery (instead of full hiring). Obviously for a real job, versus a gig, you want to have assess someone as a person and not just as a nested list.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by gambiting » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:01 PM UTC

"- It scans the blockchain and rates your set of on chain experiences and credentials - If above a certain rating, you’re hired within 60 seconds

No prejudice, no wasted time, no pain"

Absolutely piss off. This is the same crowd that thinks that algorithms cannot be prejeduiced, after all "it's just maths".

Why don't you advocate for a social score as well while we're at it.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by phantomathkg » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:02 PM UTC

This is basically China Social Credit System on blockchain, or Nosedive in Black Mirror.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by marginalia_nu » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:03 PM UTC

ssss11 wrote: post #4

I think plausibly your cv, recommendations from people and credentials could be listed on a Blockchain and verified by your id tied to it, but: - I don’t see why you need NFTs - I don’t see how it’s better than e.g LinkedIn. Or maybe it could be the back end to LI’s front end It’s really a distributed way of storing your cv - how does that benefit your job search? One comment in the thread was that employers would se…

In the buzzword industry, the goal is typically finding a problem for the solution you're hyping, rather than finding a solution to your problem like how the rest of the world typically operates.

Re: How NFTs will change hiring

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Post by jacobclaerhout » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 12:04 PM UTC

Ekaros wrote: post #25

ssss11 wrote: post #4

I think plausibly your cv, recommendations from people and credentials could be listed on a Blockchain and verified by your id tied to it, but: - I don’t see why you need NFTs - I don’t see how it’s better than e.g LinkedIn. Or maybe it could be the back end to LI’s front end It’s really a distributed way of storing your cv - how does that benefit your job search? One comment in the thread was that employers would se…

Why do we even need NFT or blockchain? Couldn't we just have some open standard and maybe PGP for endorsements? Now generating chain from PGP might be bit more tricky, but I don't see blockchains or NFTs adding anything extra.

Having an on-chain professional profile that is part of your (web3) identity does make sense to me. People are already willing to share their Linkedin profile with the world, why not replicate that in a system that is user-owner vs. Microsoft owned.