Short-Reply: Hire managers who do it, stupid-and-lazy. Job hunters who fear it, naive and ill_informed
ANYONE INTERESTED IN WHY I FEEL THIS WAY READ ON. Long_Reply, As a hiring manager you will continue to be lousy at your job... or was that lazy..... searching the web will yield, not only inaccurate but incomplete results. In my case alone there are 31 people with the same name and date of birth listed in searches of my name. in 1996 I did a search of my own name. there were 5 results. None of them were me. 3 were very impressive as well. I search this morning produced 344 results and 31 exact matches. again none of them are Me. I have been working the net since it was A R P A.... in all that time I have managed to keep myself out of the search engines. It is also possible to remove most results that are listed on websites with time and a little effort.
Oh and by the way the French Rocka-fella Impersonator that fooled all of those people a few years ago..... Used Bogus-Fake-Self_posted-Prefabricated Info to Build his Con.
I would have to say that any moron that Uses Information from web searches in Hiring practices Deserves the Imperfect poorly Qualified pool of candidates that remain.
If my personnel managers were to use this practice they would be Job hunters themselves.
This is not a violation of privacy {the web is public domain}, it is a violation of intelligent recruiting. The best producers in the world are some of the oddest and Quirky people in the world as well. What people do in their private lives is not a concern to employers. as for no fly lists and the like, inaccurate and misleading results.
and to those that worry what someone will find.... I say to you Don't post it if you can't Man {or Woman} up to it.
While the practice is About as unprofessional and inaccurate as it is a waste of resources, It is not illegal or immoral. The Web is a PUBLIC place. no Privacy even in social webs... so it is not snooping... it is laziness.
You don't have a right to a job, nor the right to tell someone how to consider you for hire.
While corporations are short sighted by moving jobs around the world to save Labor Cost, thereby eroding their own customer base. it is still their company and their job. You want to work for them. that is why you apply. so you play by their rules. chances are you would not be happy at a place that uses such incomplete information to make such important decisions anyway. keep looking.
The thing I find amusing is, the same people that say we are loosing our rights are the same people that utter the words.. there ought to be a law...
I would not worry so much about the accurate stuff put out there by you as I would the behavior of others that have the same name. Hope this has been amusing if not enlightening. Cheers.
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Short-Reply:
Hire managers who do it, stupid-and-lazy.
Job hunters who fear it, naive and ill_informed
ANYONE INTERESTED IN WHY I FEEL THIS WAY READ ON. .... in all that time I have managed to keep myself out of the search engines. It is also possible to remove most results that are listed on websites with time and a little effort.
Long_Reply, As a hiring manager you will continue to be lousy at your job... or was that lazy..... searching the web will yield, not only inaccurate but incomplete results. In my case alone there are 31 people with the same name and date of birth listed in searches of my name. in 1996 I did a search of my own name. there were 5 results. None of them were me. 3 were very impressive as well. I search this morning produced 344 results and 31 exact matches. again none of them are Me. I have been working the net since it was A R P A
Oh and by the way the French Rocka-fella Impersonator that fooled all of those people a few years ago..... Used Bogus-Fake-Self_posted-Prefabricated Info to Build his Con.
I would have to say that any moron that Uses Information from web searches in Hiring practices Deserves the Imperfect poorly Qualified pool of candidates that remain.
If my personnel managers were to use this practice they would be Job hunters themselves.
This is not a violation of privacy {the web is public domain}, it is a violation of intelligent recruiting. The best producers in the world are some of the oddest and Quirky people in the world as well. What people do in their private lives is not a concern to employers. as for no fly lists and the like, inaccurate and misleading results.
and to those that worry what someone will find.... I say to you Don't post it if you can't Man {or Woman} up to it.
While the practice is About as unprofessional and inaccurate as it is a waste of resources, It is not illegal or immoral. The Web is a PUBLIC place. no Privacy even in social webs... so it is not snooping... it is laziness.
You don't have a right to a job, nor the right to tell someone how to consider you for hire.
While corporations are short sighted by moving jobs around the world to save Labor Cost, thereby eroding their own customer base. it is still their company and their job. You want to work for them. that is why you apply. so you play by their rules. chances are you would not be happy at a place that uses such incomplete information to make such important decisions anyway. keep looking.
The thing I find amusing is, the same people that say we are loosing our rights are the same people that utter the words .. there ought to be a law...
I would not worry so much about the accurate stuff put out there by you as I would the behavior of others that have the same name. Hope this has been amusing if not enlightening.
Cheers.