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A comment on Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employment chances?.

Re:Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employm... by onion2k on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @12:56AM (#14297821)
I think it does harm you not to have a profile, but only indirectly. Employers will search for you. Having no profile means you're missing out on an opportunity to make an impression before the interview - candidates with posts about things they find interesting in job-related fields, or status updates that make them look like sociable, interesting people, will benefit from that. Having no profile puts you behind those people.

Mind you, having a bad profile will get you rejected, so no profile might be better in some people's cases.

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Re:Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employm... by lkrubner on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @03:34AM (#14298331)
"Employers will search for you."

I said this in a separate comment, but I want to read this here, in response to what you said. In the last 10 years, I've never had an employer search for me online. Never.

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Re:Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employm... by aprdm on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:35AM (#14300333)
How would you even know that?
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Re:Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employm... by onion2k on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @04:23AM (#14298476)
I've had several search for me. I know this because they've raised it in interviews, asking things like "The <X> library you tweeted about is interesting. Where would you use that?"
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Re:Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employm... by tedmiston on Thursday May 11, 2017 @10:21AM (#14316188)
Just because they don't tell you that they read your blog posts or searched for your accounts doesn't mean they didn't…
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Re:Ask HN: Does lack of a social media presence harm employm... by mdlap on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @06:14AM (#14298828)
My last two employers mentioned searching for me online. Or rather, they brought up the results of the search.
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