Subj : Re: Notice that... To : poindexter FORTRAN From : boraxman Date : Sun Feb 20 2022 12:32:02 -=> boraxman wrote to Blue White <=- pF> Now, I've heard whispers of hiring managers and recruiters passing on pF> candidates because they had *no* social network presence. Sounds like pF> we need to all have sanitized LinkedIn pages with a couple of work pF> friends, or clean up those Facebook tagged images. pF> My wife works in HR, and has non-apocryphal stories of a prospective pF> candidate with easily sought photos online in compromising positions. pF> Kids just don't understand. pF> pF> I keep reinforcing with my son that the social norms of his generation pF> aren't the same as those of the people who are able to provide pF> opportunities to him - future bosses, professors, etc. pF> I've told him to answer his phone, even if he doesn't know the number. pF> If I'm calling about a job, I'm not going to hang up and text him. pF> Leave a voice mail greeting recorded in your voice with your name in pF> it, and say "thanks for calling". When you leave a voicemail, leave pF> your number. Don't assume they'll just call you from their phone pF> screen. Any social network photos will be found by someone who's pF> looking to hire you from a pool of other qualified candidates. pF> I have heard this too, that no social media presense is looked on as a negative. I can see private companies scoring people now, and that score being used to evaluate people. Social Credit systems are soon to come here, and it will be privzte enterprise, not the state, bringing it in. I have no social media presence now, but I would rather not work for a company which saw that as a negative. A luxury I can afford now, but later may prove to be very limiting. HR have no business looking at profiles anyway. It is none of their business, and it is equivalent to me not getting you in to mow my lawn because a cyber stakled you. I'm dont believe the economic relationship warrants that. Younger people seem very, um, flippant about communication. .... MultiMail, the new multi-platform, multi-format offline reader! ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52 --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64) * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101) .