Subj : Re: Notice that...
To   : Arelor
From : Mewcenary
Date : Sun Feb 20 2022 07:39:29

  Re: Re: Notice that...
  By: Arelor to boraxman on Sat Feb 19 2022 08:15 pm

 Ar> I think about the same thing. If an employer decides not to employ me because
 Ar> he cannot find out about my hobbies online, I am better off not working for
 Ar> such employer.

 Ar> I can see a future in which a candidate includes a link to his private software
 Ar> repository, full of cool projects, and gets rejected anyway because he has no
 Ar> Facebook account, with nobody checking the actual code that person writes.

It's not really about this when HR (or whoever) chcck online presence.

It's more a verification that the person is not completely toxic.  So that will be information that the candidate is _choosing_ to put out there (typically on Twitter).  

We're not talking about, "I like to write Doors for my BBS".  We're talking about, "I am spending six hours of my day posting racist comments on Twitter". That's understandably someone that a company may not want to employ.

And it's not always down to HR.  There have been high profile cases of the candidate's future co-workers picking up on the new hire, and flagging up that the person is a racist or misogynistic creep, who does not reflect the values of the company.
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