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Recruiters only know what I tell them. Google knows almost everything about me.

komali2 9y ago
lol, recruiters have access to google. EDIT: To clarify, when I was a recruiter, we could build profiles on candidates, buy information on candidates, etc. It was pretty trivially easy to get all the relevant info from linkedin alone. My thought is, why not want that? It'd save me wasting a candidate's time if I could glance through his linkedin and see he/she wasn't a good fit. Because if you had a private profile, 80% of the time I'd be able to pull your phone number from a resume you'd posted somewhere (that my company paid pennies to have access to) and give you a call, just to find out real quick if you're a good fit or not.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Google doesn't tell you what they know about me, just what the rest of the internet knows and chooses to publicize about me. Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile, and I bet that's true of a lot of others.
  - komali2 9y ago
    >Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile. Why is that? What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out? I'm mildly surprised, because I can't think of anything google knows about me that would prevent me from being hired. The only thing is maybe my porn history, which is all in incognito mode anyway, and really not even that shocking in terms of content.
    - icebraining 9y ago
      What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out? Nice try :)
      - komali2 9y ago
        Haha I had considered this. I really am curious though, could you at least point out what class of data would be dangerous? I mean, maybe I'm exposing this with no idea!
        icebraining 9y ago
        Nothing special, it's not like I would get arrested, but when you have the habit of exploring, for example, political texts of all kinds, someone skimming and cherry-picking could find plenty of stuff to mark me as "inappropriate", even if they're a negligible part of the whole. It's essentially the idea "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
  - euyyn 9y ago
    > Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile Your profile isn't shared with normal advertisers, so I don't think there's any use of sharing it with people advertising job positions.

lol, recruiters have access to google. EDIT: To clarify, when I was a recruiter, we could build profiles on candidates, buy information on candidates, etc. It was pretty trivially easy to get all the relevant info from linkedin alone. My thought is, why not want that? It'd save me wasting a candidate's time if I could glance through his linkedin and see he/she wasn't a good fit. Because if you had a private profile, 80% of the time I'd be able to pull your phone number from a resume you'd posted somewhere (that my company paid pennies to have access to) and give you a call, just to find out real quick if you're a good fit or not.

icebraining 9y ago
Google doesn't tell you what they know about me, just what the rest of the internet knows and chooses to publicize about me. Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile, and I bet that's true of a lot of others.
- komali2 9y ago
  >Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile. Why is that? What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out? I'm mildly surprised, because I can't think of anything google knows about me that would prevent me from being hired. The only thing is maybe my porn history, which is all in incognito mode anyway, and really not even that shocking in terms of content.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    What is it that google knows about you that the rest of the world couldn't somewhat easily find out? Nice try :)
    - komali2 9y ago
      Haha I had considered this. I really am curious though, could you at least point out what class of data would be dangerous? I mean, maybe I'm exposing this with no idea!
      - icebraining 9y ago
        Nothing special, it's not like I would get arrested, but when you have the habit of exploring, for example, political texts of all kinds, someone skimming and cherry-picking could find plenty of stuff to mark me as "inappropriate", even if they're a negligible part of the whole. It's essentially the idea "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
- euyyn 9y ago
  > Few people would hire me if they had access to my full Google profile Your profile isn't shared with normal advertisers, so I don't think there's any use of sharing it with people advertising job positions.