Ask HN: Is your online presence costing you the job?

6 points by ftrflyr 9y ago ↗ HN

Employers can quickly search for applicants online, and if they don't fit within their hiring "diversity inclusion" protocols, they receive a rejection notice.

Are online profiles just an easy way for employers to quickly discriminate against those who do not fit their current hiring practices? Does anyone else think this problem?

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exolymph 9y ago ↗

> if they don't fit within their hiring "diversity inclusion" protocols, they receive a rejection notice.

Citation needed.

yuhong 9y ago ↗

This is why I dislike anti-discrimination laws. I suggest a compromise to only include certain kinds of jobs like manual labor under employment anti-discrimination laws, where workers are actually commodities that are measureable and interchangeable.