I'm also unemployed. Why should the past speak for me? Shouldn't my github account be enough? Edit: reason for my down vote? I think my argument is fair, it is

I'm also unemployed. Why should the past speak for me? Shouldn't my github account be enough? Edit: reason for my down vote? I think my argument is fair, it is wrong to look into the candidate's past. Just look at their skills and nothing else Edit 2: down voting without a reason forces me to assume the decision was not rational and thus invalid.