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Social Networking Sites Getting Risky For Recruiting
onehitwonder writes "While many recruiters and HR managers are taking advantage of the Web and online social networks to screen candidates for positions inside their organizations, a bank in Texas has decided that using social networking websites in its recruiting process is too risky legally. Amegy Bank of Texas now prohibits internal HR staff and external recruiters from using social networking sites in its hiring process. Amegy's decision to ban the use of social networking sites in its hiring process demonstrates its respect for prospective employees' privacy. It also sends a message to the employers and recruiters using social networks to snoop into job seekers' personal lives that their actions border on discrimination and could get them in a lot of legal trouble."
It is REALLY hard to prove discrimination as it is. When it is discovered, it should then be actionable in some way. As it stands, there is probably nothing in the law books that would stand against it, but social networking sites could potentially show damages because of their use being discouraged.
Personally? I don't appear on any social networking sites... other than this one. If you really want to know who I am, you gotta know who I am and then read all my comments. But there are no pictures and so to confirm my identity would not be a simple matter for most.
(Please, this is not a challenge...)
Of course it is not a challenge. Everyone here is a twitter sockpuppet.
Ignore this signature. By order.
Well, clearly, not the rules of spelling. :)
http://transformativeworks.org/
Sometimes an asshole is the right guy for the job.. if its a job in HR, for example.
How we know is more important than what we know.
...the most ridiculously amazing profile ever:
Hobbies and Interests:
- working hard every day
- always obeying superiors
- working overtime for standard pay
Favorite Movies:
Favorite Books:
Favorite Music:
- none I'm always working
- - -
Things NOT to include:
Hobbies and Interests:
- feeding my cocaine addiction
- leather and bondage fetish
- reading slashdot
- - -
My Facebook profile makes me look extremely plain. It is the bare essentials. A personal email contact, my high school and undergraduate information, and a list of some very safe hobbies like 'sports' or 'cooking'. It took me forever to untag all those pictures of me naked on acid.
Meanwhile, I am so good at my job because I'm a time-traveler from the 37th century...
Yeah, McDonalds can be like that...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
Yeah! Then you can claim that you were discriminated on your schizophrenia!
What is this personal responsibility thing you speak of? I was told I should demand the government solve all problems for me.
careful mention of his exact accomplishments and the age at which he made them
Ha! By that metric Steve Jobs, Hans Reiser, and Stephen Wolfram are all assholes.. oh, I see now, never mind.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Well the lawsuit is now a problem. They'll claim you found out they were Mormon and that's the reason you won't hire them. You claim it is for another reason, maybe something they've now removed from their page. Well it's now "He said, she said." Maybe the jury doesn't buy that the other thing was what you cared about and all of a sudden you owe a bunch of money.
BRAD What do you want?
LESTER One year's salary, with benefits.
BRAD That's not going to happen.
LESTER Well, what do you say I throw in a little sexual harassment charge to boot?
Brad LAUGHS.
BRAD Against who?
LESTER Against you.
Brad stops laughing.
LESTER (cont'd) Can you prove you didn't offer to save my job if I'd let you blow me?
Brad leans back in his chair, studying Lester.
BRAD Man. You are one twisted fuck.
It really depends on if the voices in your head tell you to do things, or if they just get off their lazy asses, take over and do it themselves!
Google my first, middle and last name, you will find a guy who is not me, has my name, the same type of degree (better school though!), engaged to a woman with a name very similar to my wife's.
I'm not sure I would trust this Google hypothesis.
What if you believe that human resources is a useless department, and you want to explain why so. How do you go about doing it?
From your boss's e-mail account, duh.
In Texas!!?! A bank in Texas setting a sane, progressive policy like this is akin to a mosque declaring an equal rights policy in Saudi Arabia! This is up there with Gorbachev declaring perestroika!
May the Maths Be with you!
If someone came back at me for not hiring them because of their religion, I would put them down as "Not psychologically fit".
We grant this status to many people who have psychological impairments. For example people who see green monkeys, or believe in unicorns. So why can't we give the same status to people who believe in ludicrous fairy tales?
I'm not saying we can't employ these people as it is important for them to lead a normal life but there are some jobs that require a sound mind. An employer is well within their rights to deny a position to someone who is not suited to it.
An SQL query goes to a bar, walks up to a table and asks, "Mind if I join you?"
You're right, that could really offend some psychologically impaired people.