>learn about job at hospital >good pay, benefits, and close to home >requires some knowledge with Python, Java, Julia, and Ruby >decent at all of them, so I decide to apply for interview >during interview, girl murmurs "I can't seem to find your Facebook." >"Of course, I don't have one." >"Well, do you have a Twitter?" >"Nope." >"Linkedin? Google+? Myspace (chuckle)?" >"Sorry ma'am, but I don't have any social media account." >"...huh" >after the interview, she said that she'll get back to me >they have never called back since.
Why did social media have to become a requirement nowadays?
I just cannot bring myself to put my real name on the Internet, the "old school 90s" mentality prevents me from doing so. Ever since I was a kid everyone around me told me to never put my name on the internet, never put my real information on the internet, and now it's a requirement.
I know my name is on here, and I know any idiot who wanted to could play NSA and find out everything about me with a couple clicks at most, but regardless I just don't feel right making an account myself with my real name, real pictures, real backstory and things. I have a gmail account obviously, but with a fake name.
How the fuck do I shake this autism off of me?
Josiah Green
Most people at least have linkedin for professional shit.
Nicholas Miller
Just create a fake one and upload a publicly avaible picture of yourself. Do not post anything.
Michael Stewart
Fuck them OP, move on. Social websites are cancer anyhow, fuck it's bad enough that I have to have a screenname on Steam, let alone use fucking Steam.
Owen Diaz
>giving the botnet pictures of yourself >giving the botnet the opportunity to take your privacy away what would lord stallman say
Zachary Reyes
If they require social media chances are they're a shitty place to work for in the first place
Parker Anderson
Lord Stallman has pictures of him online. I think he would create one fake account with no information on it, then de-activate it.
Ryan Young
>no LinkedIn it's like you don't want to get a job
Colton Ross
gog
Jordan Bell
Just make a LinkedIn account. Only necessary data. Pic is a maybe
Cooper Phillips
At a bare minimum you should have a linkedin when looking for employment. You can have a Facebook you never post to as long as it exists with an up to date picture. You really are just besting yourself for a retarded reason, pops.
Gabriel Morris
This.
Stop being an autist, OP. This is like refusing to be listed in a phone book.
Isaiah Watson
Would you seriously use LinkedIn now that it's owned by Microsoft?
Jonathan Jones
What is going on here?
Joshua Sanchez
>stories that are totally made up I don't have any social media accounts and had no problems finding offers.
Easton Ross
I'm not saying I like it, but sometimes you have to do shit you don't like. Like says, only use publicly available info.
Sebastian Gray
LinkedIn is basically a requirement for getting a job these days. Make one and link to your qualifications (resume, cover letter, etc). Employers love that.
Carson Perry
My dad did shit like that, and had some faggot option enabled so when we called people with caller id it wouldn't show our number- even though it should have as we were fucking calling them. So instead of being able to call my mother it was basically a call block. Hur dur thanks dad
Matthew Ross
This, fammalammadingdong
Joseph Murphy
iMillennials.
Tyler Flores
all reddit crossposters
Evan Gray
>implying
Connor Phillips
they probably think that since the only way to contact you is by phone, or possibly this "fake name" gmail account, you actually don't know how to computer and are either practically inept or weirdly tinfoil hat-tier.
either way it raised red flags with your interviewer and thats all that mattered
When I interview people and they lack an online presence completely, it tells me that maybe they're lying about their identity
At the very least get a linkedin and get rid of it once you get hired. They only require a bare minimum of info, and you only have to put on info that pertains to the job you're looking for. It tells the interviewer that you at the very least have the initiate and know how to attempt to market yourself
Easton Bell
Sup Forums needs a pychologist subchan for faggots like this guy
Joshua Phillips
Me not getting hired had very little to do with social media. I'm almost certain it's because I live near a uni and one of the CS fags from there probably got it because degree
Oliver Morales
>subchan
Easton Davis
>it raised red flags with your interviewe I am pretty sure it's more likely they know nothing about tech and think if you don't have a facebook, they outed you for being some sort of blackhat deviant. People who check facebooks are looking for dirt on you so they have a reason not to hire you so they can gossip about it over lunch. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ryan Long
then why did you think social media has become some sort of requirement these days?
David Fisher
>the ole b8 gits dem rascals agn!
Justin Parker
This is why the companies that aren't shit do not involve HR in the hiring process. They are just paperwork monkeys.
Dominic Smith
>it tells me that maybe they're lying about their identity >he doesn't know that you can contact the university/college and former work places if any the interviewee came from to confirm his identity >doesn't know how to contact references, as in real people, that are willing to vet or vouch for the interviewee
Fuck linkedin, but also praise linkedin, shit's hilarious when you can dig up Huma, the Clinton Foundation, CTR, and the piss loving Muslim who was using his dead son for politics.
David Baker
You could grow up.
Austin Carter
>companies that have HR
Christian Wood
>giving the botnet pictures of yourself You're already too late on that one in all likelihood.
Your ugly mug is already in 9000 NSA databases. Might as well use one for good.
Julian Hernandez
The looks she was giving me suggested I was some sort of alien for not having a social media presence. Like the very concept of a person devoid of a Facebook, Twitter, or whatever else couldn't be real, and it leads me to believe that people expect you to have it.
Angel Brooks
Hi Dad. "Well I think that if we're calling somebody then they should be able to see who we are, what's wrong with that" >Dad spergs out
I showed that faggot, I broke his fucking phone. The man was such a recluse in his basement all of the time that it took him 3 months to realize the upstairs phone was broken. Naturally he thinks it's just a dead battery so keks were had when he buys a new one and then discovers the pcb is broken from punching the phone while in the cradle.
Not my fault, I got mad at those fucking VR Missions man
Jeremiah Butler
OP stop being a beta and call THEM back.
If you want something, go get it instead of posting on Sup Forums about how you are too lazy to take action.
Brandon Adams
I also heard from other managers that do a lot of hiring, It can be used to confirm your identity. If you say your name is Neeman Markus, and there is a fb profile for Neeman Markus with your picture and bunch of friends, it tells me not only all the dumb shit you post on facebook (reasons not to hire), but that you actually use the name you gave us, and are recognized by that name.
Because if nothing at all comes up relevant to your name, it tells me you're actually not who you say you are and probably have a laundry list of crimes that you're covering up
Juan Perry
Also I've never had anyone care about my lack of facebook, I only started using linkedin after I obtained my first job to keep up with coworkers after I left.
Chase Baker
You realize populating search results with a big social media presence helps obfuscate any incriminating information about you, right? Or that any company with job worthy chops can easily background check their potential hires.
Aaron Fisher
Don't put your resume on LinkedIn. It seems stupid because it contains 90% the same info but they're supposed to be distinct things. The linkedin is just a secondary thing really
You gotta tailor your actual resume for each job you apply to. Send your resume separate.
What I do is I have a "master resume" containing every single bit of info about my career or career related things in fancy bullet points and categories and shit. Then when I apply to a job I look at what I want and I trim off all the parts that aren't relevant so that it fits on one page.
James Garcia
All this tells me is that HR has become too lazy to do any real work. Why go through the trouble of doing it the old-fashioned way when you have all these tools and inadvertently volunteered info at the touch of your fingertips.
Noah Hernandez
>Why did social media have to become a requirement nowadays? Because they want to be able to monitor your activity outside of work to determine what kind of person you are.
Ayden Murphy
>ike the very concept of a person devoid of a Facebook, Twitter, or whatever else couldn't be real just like your bullshit story isn't real?
John Moore
What amuses me is that there are people autistic enough to not use social media in 2016 but still carry around a smartphone and use the internet at home
John Myers
If confirming identity is the case, then what the fuck is my government appointed ID for?
Also I probably will tomorrow. I do need bux
Josiah Gutierrez
I refuse.
Carson Rivera
Ho, someones unloading tonight. You should take this shit to your therapist familia.
Luke Parker
Well that's pretty dumb because you can hide literally everything except your name from people who aren't friended with you (or facebook itself, but that's another issue)
You can have an account with just 1 photo, and nobody looking you up on facebook would be none the wiser that you have no friends or don't post jack shit because your privacy settings hide it
Isaiah Sanders
The culture around Twitter and Facebook is shit. That's what deters me. And then with LinkedIn, it defaults to showing people when you view their profile which is creepy either end of that transaction. Unlike OP though, I wouldn't be mad. I'd be happy I dodged a bullet working for that stupid of a company.
Lucas Gutierrez
It can't be a "requirement", because nobody can force you to put up personal info like name, education, past/current employers etc. on a publicly accessible website for everyone to see. Those who imply otherwise are cunts full of shit. A right to privacy still exists, no matter what others may think.
William Morales
My mother has explicitly requested phone books to not list her, and yet they do so anyways. She doesn't want a certain person from her past finding her. There are plenty of valid reasons to not want information about yourself being public.
Dylan Martin
:^)
Like I said I know I'm being tracked and all, but I still can't bring myself to do it. I just can't bring myself to combat something embedded into me since birth
also has merit
Christopher Carter
You're thinking wrong you idiot. You need them, not the other way around, they've probably already hired some Superior chad by now thanks to your incompetence
Charles Foster
LIVIN IN AMERICA! Where everyone has a right to your gossip.
Eli Rivera
None of which apply to OP I wager.
Evan Russell
Pretty sure there are plenty of companies who would pay better and not have a shitty interview process outlined by OP. You sound like b8 though so might not be worth responding.
Kevin Diaz
I'm good now, finally got my gaymen pc built.
t. the guy that bought a 960 from bbuy lol
Alexander Gomez
What companies _don't_ involve HR in the hiring process? Not only virtually all do, but the HR person has more decisive power about whether to hire a given candidate than the team manager. Not always, but generally.
Adam Hughes
You don't need to use it, but not having one is a pretty big red flag for many companies.
They don't want to hire someone who's a shutin and won't get along with anyone else in the workforce, you're giving the wrong impression by not having one.
Luke Gomez
Don't feel bad, OP. I'm not narcissistic and shallow enough to think the whole world gives a flying fuck about what I had for lunch or how fabulous I look in my latest selfie either.
I, too, am stuck in the "you don't put your info on the internet" mindset of the 90s, back when they could make horror movies about someone tracking you down and killing you because they found you on the internet, when scenes could happen where the killer slips the victim's real name into the conversation and it terrifies the victim. (H-how d-d-do you know my n-n-name?)
Alexander Miller
Maybe if you left your parents basement you wouldn't be so ignorant.
Jeremiah Phillips
OP wasn't an outlined process, it was a snippit of the overall conversation that happened to pertain to the topic I wanted to discuss
I didn't walk into the interview, talk about social media, and leave, their was more in-between the timeframe
Julian Rivera
Shitty job hiring thread? OK >Apply for a job at an international company. >Job is Cyber security audit. >Have all the qualifications they need. >Still working in the old job as my contract have like 1 month remaining. >Got called for an interview. >Have a skype interview for about 2 hrs. >Next day they inform me I passed the technical interview, and the next interview is tomorrow at 9:00AM. >I was still in my old job, which I was working in the field in a remote area with no coverage at all. >I apologies about the time and request to change it. >they never called again wew lad, glade I didn't got the job, if simple request they can't comply with, it must be one shitty company.
Jace Hall
I feel bad for you if you've been working at such shitty companies your entire life.
Juan Howard
>Best Buy power supply I hope you have property and life insurance
Easton Jenkins
HR people/managers who are projecting this hard should change jobs and/or see a therapist. It all sounds as if the NWO was already officially here and Facebook was one of the world government agencies which are compulsory to be signed up with and tracked by. Am I missing something here?
Josiah Anderson
>Because if nothing at all comes up relevant to your name, it tells me you're actually not who you say you are and probably have a laundry list of crimes that you're covering up Then why not check government ID?
Blake Johnson
>company requires you to have a social media account >fire you for accessing and browsing it while at work GEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jordan Jones
Employers think it's a red flag, like you're a serial killer or something.
Justin Roberts
>no one will hire me because i don't have any social media accounts >continue collecting unemployment what on earth are you complaining about? keep living the dream faggot
Benjamin Richardson
>best buy generic PSU prepare for housefires they're not diablotek tier, but they're still shit
Isaac Allen
>tfw already have a career and nobody at work gives a shit about social media
Lucas Morales
>ma'am
They didn't hire you because you're a fedora tipping loser.
Jace Turner
It's amazing how lazy and dumb people on Sup Forums will make up excuses for their lack of a job >I don't have a Facebook account, they think I'm a serial killer! >I'm white, they're obviously looking for diversity hires! >what? My GPA in college? Where did I do my internships? How to write a FizzBuzz? That's none of their business!
Dylan Cox
>24" curved monitor the fuck is the point of that
Chase Allen
De facto requirement, it's not on the books but they'll still be cunts about it for reasons other anons mentioned.
p. much >Get hired and fake it till you are off probationary period >Be weird recluse when they are stuck with you.
I got this bro cords wouldn't reach, so I made them.
Jaxson Adams
Do they still talk endlessly about TV shows and games? Still waiting to find that secret bizzaro cubbyhole where people talk about topics around their career field
Evan Brooks
I'm not a lazy nigger tbqvhwyatematbitmctiwlyk (to be quite very honest with you at this exact moment and time but if the mood changes i'll let you kno)
Jaxson James
You're not fooling anyone, i've seen these pictures before
Ryder Thompson
The second interview was surely to be done by HR, and they unfortunately tend to think rather higly of themselves to the point of believing that a candidate is not in the position to request changes like that. They considered your request an affront and dropped you as a candidate as a result.
Nolan Morris
>tbqvhwyatematbitmctiwlyk not funny
Isaac Robinson
Don't really talk about TV shows, just sports and shit about the job. It's pretty much just a bunch of normie guys with families.
David Watson
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Charles Wright
To get unemployment, you actually have to work for like half a year, -kike york
took it all back, just wanted to test it out and see how shitty doom would run on a 960.
proof I got my head out of my ass. pic forthcoming
Ryder Cook
Yea, if they want to hire you then you'd need to show them some documents anyway, provide social security number etc. Since when is fucking Facebook or other "social media" sites an authority (let alone the prime, default one) to verify someone's identity? This is entirely ridiculous.
Ryan Myers
Besides you can make a fucking fake Facebook account making it totally ineffective even at that wrong fucking purpose.
Carter Thompson
All medium to large businesses I encountered work like that. I had interviews with HR even in a rather smallish company below 50 employees, and the HR person clearly had the leading role in the hiring process. Maybe some startups which consist of just a bunch of people handle things differently.
Jacob Cruz
I've applied to Microsoft. The interviews were all with technical people. Same with Google. Same with IBM. Same with even fucking Oracle. Maybe if you're applying for some bullshit role like sales they might have a personality test.
Juan Taylor
>because your privacy settings hide it
They weren't looking for your Facebook because they wanted to check you had one, they were looking for your Facebook to verify you were a normalfag like them. What makes you think they'd hire someone with maxed privacy settings if they were in a position to turn down a candidate simply for not having a Facebook account?
Sebastian Davis
>get job at parallels >company owners are based in russia >never even talked to interviewer >show up for work and start working >get to make mad dosh off mactards that bought their fruity toy and then realized they need a real OS to do real work
feelsgoodman
Sebastian Jones
Because checking to see if you have a name and a face online is literally what they do outside of OP's shitty made up story.
Sebastian Diaz
Sorry for delay. Phone sucks.
Blake Sanchez
>that mousepad
Leo Price
>What makes you think they'd hire someone with maxed privacy settings if they were in a position to turn down a candidate simply for not having a Facebook account? What makes you think people get turned down for not having a Facebook account?
This is bullshit and it gets reposted every week. Try getting a job. Literally nobody gives a fuck, especially in CS/IT fields where linkedin or github matters way fucking more
Oliver Gray
>LinkedIn I'd rather have literally any other social media. They're the scummiest of the lot, fucking spammers.
Roughly 40% of all phone numbers in the UK are ex-directory.
>maybe they're lying about their identity If that is a concern to you, ask for ID, you bloody idiot.
This is all bullshit from idiots. Facebook tried to hire me, and I don't have a Facebook account. If a social media company doesn't give a shit about being on their own site, why should anyone else you want to work for?
HR are idiots everywhere; that isn't new.
Nathan Wright
If you don't want to do LinkedIn, then make a simple personal website. Throw up a picture of yourself, a portfolio/resume, and a contact e-mail address.
Cameron Collins
>Reasons why HR is a joke and a plague to the working world.
Lucas Roberts
You at least need linkedin.
Lucas Baker
OP stop being a sperg. The idiot used the lack of social media as an excuse. There had to be something else in the interview that stood out as a red flag to the interviewer.