I agree with both of your points. The conventional wisdom is that the best predictor of future performance is past results. Since this job's responsibilities are to "Provide service to Path users through email, Get Satisfaction, Twitter, Quora and other mediums," experience using these mediums is obviously ideal.
That doesn't necessarily translate to other jobs, but this is one case that seems fairly sound.
Ah- of course I did see that- but I misinterpreted the rest as a "I agree, but you could consider it a requirement because...". Rereading it I realize that's not the case. Cheers!
We should probably have made this a requirement. I'll push a change now :) Also, thank you for the kind words on this. We think it is an important part of the responsibilities for this post at Path.
I heard that at YC application, you provide your HN username.
StackOverflow's Jobs listing is also based on the feature of observing the applicant's social activity in regards to the job in discussion.
Saying, HR people are now definitely looking after your activity on the web, perhaps not all of them know where to look (e.g. looking at your facebook's profile, where there is a better source at quora/hn/stack-exchange/etc.)
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[ 4.5 ms ] story [ 37.0 ms ] threadThat doesn't necessarily translate to other jobs, but this is one case that seems fairly sound.
1. That's under "Ideally", not "Requirements". 2. I think that's a great idea.
:-)
I heard that at YC application, you provide your HN username.
StackOverflow's Jobs listing is also based on the feature of observing the applicant's social activity in regards to the job in discussion.
Saying, HR people are now definitely looking after your activity on the web, perhaps not all of them know where to look (e.g. looking at your facebook's profile, where there is a better source at quora/hn/stack-exchange/etc.)