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The employer does not care if "The idea of an employer needing to judge me based on what I say/do on Facebook makes me really uncomfortable." The process goes
by pm24601 14y ago
The employer does not care if
"The idea of an employer needing to judge me based on what I say/do on Facebook makes me really uncomfortable."
The process goes something like this:
1. octo_t sends in resume to BigCo.
2. BigCo. contracts with an outside company that uses an automated system (think big data) to troll through your twitter, facebook, HN, etc.
3. automated system rejects octo_t as a lesbian hater/drug user/or some sort of "undesirable".
BigCo. is protected from lawsuits because BigCo. didn't engage in discrimination: your resume was rejected without a human seeing it at all.
P.S. it is happening already. ( look for automated resume screening software ) ( http://news.dice.com/2012/06/22/hr-software-hinders-hiring/ http://news.dice.com/2012/06/22/hr-software-hinders-hiring/ )
- greenyoda 14y ago"BigCo. didn't engage in discrimination: your resume was rejected without a human seeing it at all." I don't think that argument would stand up in court. If the software you contracted to use explicitly applied screening criteria based on protected classes such as race or sex, then you would be found to be discriminating illegally.
- pm24601 14y agoSure it would - all BigCo. has to do is point out that no human being rejected the applicants. For example, to reject older applicants just reject people based on salary expectations: younger workers will come in under the bar. BigCo. has a perfectly "legitimate" reason for all the older workers never getting an interview. Just be creative with the criteria and filter based on the indirect criteria.