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(Wired) Scary Didn't Get That New Job? You Need a Better Facebook Score   (wired.com) divider line 100
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TsarTom [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 01:09:37 AM
But Identified sees itself more as a resume improvement tool. "If you went to a community college, your candidacy won't be as attractive as a 4.0 from Harvard. That's just reality. We can't change that," CEO Brendan Wallace told Wired. "But it doesn't mean you can't become what you want to be. You just have to know what you need to do to get there."

So just go to Harvard too. Duh.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 01:23:42 AM
What if your Klout score - that controversial measure of your "influence" on social networks - determined whether you got a job?

What if you blew me, and I gave you a quick fatal case of AIDS even though I wasn't infected by the virus?
 
FerneJohn
2011-11-22 01:25:04 AM
I deleted my Facebook because I found it too depressing and obnoxious. "Friends" who I never talked to, and family who I already text and talk with.
 
foo monkey
2011-11-22 01:27:03 AM
I don't hire attention whores. If I saw a potential employee posted to Facebook or twitter 20x a day, that person wouldn't get the job. If he had an interesting and/or relevant blog, that would be good. My director of operations runs a homebrew blog. He'd gave gotten the job without it, but now I get good fresh beer.
 
maxheck
2011-11-22 01:31:47 AM
What if your Klout score - that controversial measure of your "influence" on social networks - determined whether you got a job?

Well, I suppose I'd be farked then.

Fortunately reality does not correspond to the glossy pages of Wired Magazine.
 
libranoelrose [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 01:35:53 AM
This is horrible.
 
Memes Ate My Balls
2011-11-22 01:36:41 AM
A hiring manager might need a new Java developer, and Reppify will look across a candidate's resume and connections to build scores for "reputation," "influence," "footprint," and "overall candidacy" - all based on parameters set by the hiring manager himself.

Finally, a simple and accurate way to find qualified Java developers.
 
bonzeemer
2011-11-22 01:37:39 AM
Porn and fark are the only things worthwhile on the internet.
 
DeRosso
2011-11-22 01:38:17 AM
And yet again, people who jumped on the various social media now see how they farked themselves over.
 
TheBigJerk
2011-11-22 01:42:30 AM
That's...incredibly stupid.

The people with the best rep scores are going to be spending all their farking around with their MoSoSos and networking games instead of working. I could see it having an affect on sales hiring, maybe, but anything else is just dumb.
 
WhyteRaven74
2011-11-22 01:43:34 AM
DeRosso: And yet again, people who jumped on the various social media now see how they farked themselves over.

Yeah let's blame the people not the assmunches using BS for hiring.
 
rebelyell2006
2011-11-22 01:44:46 AM
The company pulls data not only from LinkedIn's business-centric social network, but also from Facebook, Twitter, and even GitHub profiles, building what it calls a "job fit score."

So if I do not have accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or GitHub, then I'll never find a job? Will this company search for user handle pseudonyms? Because there are multiple Rebelyell2006s out there beyond myself. Would the company even be able to figure out of someone is using a pseudonym on a social media website other than LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or GitHub? And what the fark is GitHub?
 
Lars The Canadian Viking
2011-11-22 01:45:46 AM
I just have a few accounts under my real name and only post intelligent, well thought out stuff on them. That way when my name gets googled, only really nice stuff comes up.
 
Pointy Tail of Satan [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 01:46:33 AM
I'm a highly paid enterprise network "guru", and I couldn't care less about and have never even been to the sites of Facebook, Twitter, or any other so called "social" networking site. I've got better things to do than interact with a bunch of intellectual pylons. Present company excluded of course. lol
 
Harry Zach OBalls
2011-11-22 01:47:31 AM
Facebook is depressing. I really think people use it as a personal audience to feel good about themselves selectively when they get lonely. It's really sad some of the shat I've seen posed on there. Such two people together at a bar having a conversation on facebook with each other when they are sitting two feet apart. Are you that bored or that narcissistic that you think you need to share this to get some reduced uncertainty about your life.
 
ese_guey
2011-11-22 01:49:22 AM
Headline of the Year?
 
jingks
2011-11-22 01:52:41 AM
rebelyell2006: So if I do not have accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or GitHub, then I'll never find a job? And what the fark is GitHub?

GitHub would probably be the only useful metric of the group, depending on the company. It's an online host for software projects using Git revision control. Similar to Sourceforge or googlecode. I guess it's more social then those two though, don't use it much myself.
 
BumpInTheNight
2011-11-22 01:53:44 AM
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Yah, uh any company that does this isn't the sort I'd work for any ways.
 
SageC
2011-11-22 01:53:50 AM
Before Facebook:
www.talknerdytomelover.com
After Facebook:
www.searchinfluence.com
 
Guntram Shatterhand
2011-11-22 01:54:38 AM
So how much do we pay these people who provide this 'service' to corporations?

I mean, it's extortion anyway. Let's be honest: how much?
 
Scientician
2011-11-22 01:55:33 AM
If the data they find is as relevant as what turns up when I GIS my name I guess I'm in trouble.
 
minitrue noram
2011-11-22 01:56:04 AM
who do i have to sleep with to improve my FB reputation

/and would they do so out of pity?
 
ultraholland
2011-11-22 02:01:29 AM
I only consider hiring people who are big shots in the ham radio circuit.
 
LawyersRock
2011-11-22 02:03:22 AM
TsarTom: But Identified sees itself more as a resume improvement tool. "If you went to a community college, your candidacy won't be as attractive as a 4.0 from Harvard. That's just reality. We can't change that," CEO Brendan Wallace told Wired. "But it doesn't mean you can't become what you want to be. You just have to know what you need to do to get there."

So just go to Harvard too. Duh.

Or just put it on your facebook profile and you get a better score. All the benefits of Harvard without the work.
 
fanbladesaresharp
2011-11-22 02:04:19 AM
Pointy Tail of Satan: I'm a highly paid enterprise network "guru", and I couldn't care less about and have never even been to the sites of Facebook, Twitter, or any other so called "social" networking site. I've got better things to do than interact with a bunch of intellectual pylons. Present company excluded of course. lol

So is Fark your crutch or your cure, and how's that working for you?
 
poxic
2011-11-22 02:05:59 AM
There's some blonde chick in the US who has the same name as me. She's pretty much the only thing that comes up when you search on my name, since she has a buttload of Facebook posts.

I kind of look forward to someone studying up on this person, then being flummoxed when I walk through the door. (Note: am not blonde, nor do I look anything remotely like her.)
 
Goodfella
2011-11-22 02:11:02 AM
rebelyell2006: The company pulls data not only from LinkedIn's business-centric social network, but also from Facebook, Twitter, and even GitHub profiles, building what it calls a "job fit score."

So if I do not have accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or GitHub, then I'll never find a job? Will this company search for user handle pseudonyms? Because there are multiple Rebelyell2006s out there beyond myself. Would the company even be able to figure out of someone is using a pseudonym on a social media website other than LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or GitHub? And what the fark is GitHub?



I'd just say I'm "Studman69" and I'd get all the jobs.

/laughs at those attention whore sites
 
Lsherm
2011-11-22 02:15:16 AM
I find this funny because I haven't logged into my Facebook account since they required an *edu address to sign up. Too many ex-girlfriends found me right off the bat, which let me know it was a bad idea.

I also find this funny because it's turning into an advantage, now.

/LinkedIn - you can find me, on the executive level.
 
ProfessorOhki
2011-11-22 02:15:28 AM
Hey, these are just like all those articles 6-7 years ago talking about playing WoW being a marketable job skill.
 
davynelson
2011-11-22 02:18:27 AM
i wouldn't expect to be hired IF I HAD A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
because i'd likely be a farking time-wasting moron
and a bad employee.


DUH
 
jingks
2011-11-22 02:21:27 AM
davynelson: i wouldn't expect to be hired IF I HAD A FACEBOOK FARK ACCOUNT
because i'd likely be a farking time-wasting moron
and a bad employee.


DUH

FTFY
 
Mama's Boy
2011-11-22 02:29:06 AM
So should I give them my tripcode on/b/ or what?
 
ultraholland
2011-11-22 02:30:58 AM
davynelson:
i wouldn't expect to be hired IF I HAD A FACEBOOK ACCOUNT
because i'd likely be a farking time-wasting moron
and a bad employee.


worst. haiku. ever.
 
accelerus
2011-11-22 02:41:26 AM
makes me glad I have my facebook only visible to friends - I'm not searchable

And even if I was "public" I have the 2nd most common last name in the US :) So good luck with that.

Anyone who doesn't have a "work" email address and a different "personal" deserves to be found out for all the weird creepy stuff they have ever done in the internet.
 
illannoyin
2011-11-22 02:44:18 AM
Reason #1,624,291 not to be on facebook.
 
libranoelrose [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 02:49:51 AM
accelerus: I have the 2nd most common last name in the US

Mcgillicutty?
 
gozar_the_destroyer
2011-11-22 02:54:16 AM
According to Google I don't exist and I intend to keep it that way. My private life is private and my professional life is professional. They are separate and shall remain so. You are hiring me for my skills, not to be your friend.
 
OhioUGrad
2011-11-22 02:58:39 AM
gozar_the_destroyer: According to Google I don't exist and I intend to keep it that way. My private life is private and my professional life is professional. They are separate and shall remain so. You are hiring me for my skills, not to be your friend.

+1
 
Catlike Typist
2011-11-22 03:06:29 AM
Oh gosh yes. If only more of life were dependent on popularity contests. We should have the banks tailor interest rates using this sort of data.*


*all lies
 
RancidSorbet [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 03:23:42 AM
bonzeemer: Porn and fark are the only things worthwhile on the internet.

They aren't the same thing?
 
randomstranger
2011-11-22 03:24:13 AM
Wow, I quit. I am officially unqualified to work in the 21st century.
 
im14u2c
2011-11-22 03:30:56 AM
BumpInTheNight: Yah, uh any company that does this isn't the sort I'd work for any ways.

That pretty much sums up my thoughts.
 
SageC
2011-11-22 03:42:54 AM
randomstranger: Wow, I quit. I am officially unqualified to work in the 21st century.

Have you thought about a career in Congress? Being hard to trace is a benefit, and most recently, so is not working.
 
ElevenBravo
2011-11-22 03:54:52 AM
Maybe everyone in here should friend request eachother and start LIKING LIKING LIKING LIKING LIKING.....!!!! It might work out for you. I already have a job and am straight or else I would.
 
Foxxinnia
2011-11-22 04:06:02 AM
How the hell do they qualify these metrics of theirs? I seriously don't understand how they could get qualities like "footprint" (whatever the fark that means) out of social media sites.
 
gozar_the_destroyer
2011-11-22 04:07:06 AM
SageC: randomstranger: Wow, I quit. I am officially unqualified to work in the 21st century.

Have you thought about a career in Congress? Being hard to trace is a benefit, and most recently, so is not working.

No, I will not go into politics. Do not tempt me.
 
NephilimNexus [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 04:09:41 AM
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gozar_the_destroyer
2011-11-22 04:16:35 AM
Foxxinnia: How the hell do they qualify these metrics of theirs? I seriously don't understand how they could get qualities like "footprint" (whatever the fark that means) out of social media sites.

Statisticians make things up all the time. They can pull conclusions out of data from the void so well that not even they can explain the process.

\without a full foundation in the field that you are gathering the data for you are just guessing
 
gadian [TotalFark]
2011-11-22 04:20:28 AM
Eh? Don't want to hire me because of my online activities? I don't give a fark. Much like I would not give a fark if you didn't hire me because of my tattoos (i don't actually have any) or terrible heroine addiction. If you're going to discriminate based on the things that I enjoy, then I wouldn't enjoy working for you anyway. I'm wouldn't change my online activity nor would I laser off a tattoo that I particularly cared about to suit an employer. Yes, I will find another job, yours isn't the only game in town.
 
randomstranger
2011-11-22 04:33:55 AM
gadian: Eh? Don't want to hire me because of my online activities? I don't give a fark. Much like I would not give a fark if you didn't hire me because of my tattoos (i don't actually have any) or terrible heroine addiction. If you're going to discriminate based on the things that I enjoy, then I wouldn't enjoy working for you anyway. I'm wouldn't change my online activity nor would I laser off a tattoo that I particularly cared about to suit an employer. Yes, I will find another job, yours isn't the only game in town.

Unless it is. I'm not sure if you've noticed the whole lack-of-decent-jobs thing going on lately.
 
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