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 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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