General / Off-Topic No Social Media - No Job?

[Asp Explorer]

I found this gem today

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140606-no-social-media-presence-no-job

Basically, unless you are on Farcebook or Lockedout, you have no chance of getting a job, ever.

Just unbelievable.

In my position, if I were to leak weekly tidbits about what I was doing - I'd be pinkslipped/p45'd and expecting a lawsuit.

What on earth is the world coming to? Can't Recruiting/HR do their own jobs any more?

 

[Mazhurg]

Glad I am retired...

 

[metatheurgist]

What a load of ********. So they're looking for self involved, narcissistic egomaniacs to fill their jobs? Marketing is out of control if individuals have to start prostituting themselves all over the place. Hopefully this too will pass.

 

[Ulysses_W]

I found this gem today

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140606-no-social-media-presence-no-job

How odd, a link from the BBC that isn't accessible from the UK. :S

 

[Alien]

How odd, a link from the BBC that isn't accessible from the UK. :S

I'm not sure now which is more unacceptable, that you can't get a job unless you are on Facebook, or an article about it on the BBC website can't be viewed in the UK :S

 

[Stachel]

I'm not sure now which is more unacceptable, that you can't get a job unless you are on Facebook, or an article about it on the BBC website can't be viewed in the UK :S

My thoughts exactly. Its not like we pay for it or anything.