Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Paul E. Bennett" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: Article Followup-To: comp.lang.forth Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:02:43 +0100 Organization: Hidecs Consultancy Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <08bf181a-864a-45b4-9a60-f07f15d7a1bf@13g2000vbf.googlegroups.com> <4ae0e635-5fd5-45dd-984b-9b6e51a30483@ou2g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> <4d5114f6-1185-4bb9-b275-2e48f5fcdeb3@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: individual.net NicHuDCZqZH5OXUOkDAZyAMnmnr5WCnbNGiR2A8IP0wv9/x4bUKdbuyJ0xrpvtHhOe Cancel-Lock: sha1:+oe/m2C94qNfY0n1Ot9wd8H4EDs= Mail-Copies-To: Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:15606 John Passaniti wrote: > On Sunday, September 9, 2012 12:12:31 AM UTC-4, Ed wrote: >> > Yep. Aside from the numerous articles I've read about the >> > quasi-controversy over companies mining the Internet for >> > information about job candidates, I myself had this happen >> > to me the last time I was looking for work (about 2.5 years >> > ago). I was informed that as part of the interview process, >> > they Googled me. They did, and I now work for that company. >> >> The least exposure the better. Unknown persons at least have >> a prospect of being employed. > > Not in my experience, the experience of many people I know, and > increasingly younger workers who have embraced social media. I'm not > suggesting that every online expression is necessarily a good thing for a > job candidate. But there is seldom a downside to having a profile page on > a site like LinkedIn, a project blog, links to code you've written on > GitHub, or showing your participation on Stack Overflow or similar. > >> I can imagine Forth vendors having a mental list of "do not employ" >> persons based on what they've read on c.l.f. Employers want doers - >> not talkers. > > Thank you for today's illustration of the logically fallacy of false > dichotomy. One of the job offers I received came to me from my participation here and in comp.arch.embedded. The person offering the job seemed to like what I had said. -- ******************************************************************** Paul E. Bennett............... Forth based HIDECS Consultancy Mob: +44 (0)7811-639972 Tel: +44 (0)1235-510979 Going Forth Safely ..... EBA. www.electric-boat-association.org.uk.. ********************************************************************