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Corporate Block Lists Silently Affect Your Job Search and Career Advancement
- pinewurst 2y agohttps://archive.ph/BjcR0 https://archive.ph/BjcR0
- PaulHoule 2y agoI worked at one place where they made me sign a severance agreement to the effect that I'd never apply for a job there again or they could sue me. Fat chance. Within 1.5 years they got acquired by a major fashion brand -- hard to believe that the contract still applies.
- walterbell 2y agoShades of China social credit scores, US No-Fly lists, high school "this will go on your permanent record!", WestWorld Season 3 predictive AI career dossier for job eligibility, and the TV series Burn Notice, https://burn-notice.djmed.net/index.html https://burn-notice.djmed.net/index.html > .. about a spy, Michael Westen, who was "fired" right in the middle of a dangerous operation - nearly getting him killed. In the spy lingo it's called being "burned," and being killed may be the easier way out. Except, that Michael was good.. really, really good, and had no clue what could have happened to get him axed. Is it legal for a company to share their block list with another company? Could a startup legally share their block list with an investor? If one HR system is used by multiple companies with a common parent holding company, could a hiring block be applied across portfolio companies? Could background screening companies get access to hiring block lists for reputation scoring and candidate ranking? If shared public LLMs are used to screen candidates, could block list data leak between companies?
- MentatOnMelange 2y agoThis kind of reminds me of how credit scores worked a long time ago. We take it for granted that we can see our scores and understand how to improve them, but that wasn't always true.