Timeline for Is it unprofessional to add a Stallman-like "you won't find me on Facebook" to my resume?
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| Mar 29, 2020 at 14:04 | comment | added | Taladris | @terdon: your example is an outlier. I do check people on Facebook and I live in a country where homonyms are commonplace (a handful of surnames). I often have to make educated guesses (same city, age,...) about people. Of course, I know I don't have complete certainty whether I am right or not, but this is not a random choice with uniform distribution. You often end up with a few very likely candidates. | |
| Mar 28, 2020 at 19:56 | comment | added | Andy | @BSMP They do, which is probably why they aren't checking FB at all. | |
| Mar 28, 2020 at 16:36 | comment | added | terdon | So, if your name is "John Lee", you think that a recruiter will just randomly pick one of the (hundreds? thousands?) of matching profiles and arbitrarily decide that's the person whose résume they're looking at? That seems completely absurd. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 16:51 | comment | added | BSMP | @user2390246 Why? Are recruiters as a rule particularly skilled at determining online identities correctly? I was under the impression many recruiters scan through lots of candidates quickly. | |
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| Mar 27, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | Ivana | +1 Good, well-argued answer. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 13:25 | comment | added | Peter M | If the recruiter finds some random profile and assumes that it is you, then that will happen regardless of you being on FB or not, and regardless of having a sticker or not. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 10:14 | comment | added | guest | @DmitryGrigoryev: Maybe you, but there are also a lot of single mothers without education (not flexible in time and place) who are desperate for a job. I would not call this alone anred flag for them | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 10:03 | comment | added | user112490 | Really good points, but creating a blank profile on FB implies that consent is given for FB to use your data, which may be the whole point of not having a FB account. I agree that the no-FB disclaimer shouldn't be on a resume, but putting it somewhere online (that can be found by someone searching for you) is a great suggestion. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 9:48 | comment | added | fraxinus | Good point, but the sticker-like approach on the Stallman's homepage is still not the best way of stating this in your resume. Plaintext "I don't have a facebook(, twitter, instagram) profile" is better. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 9:35 | comment | added | Dmitry Grigoryev | I'm totally fine being rejected by a company where HR employees assume someone with the same name as mine is me. Saves a lot of trouble in the long run. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 9:03 | comment | added | Gizmo | Maybe it is, maybe it's not. There's nothing wrong with assuming the worst case and preparing for that. | |
| Mar 27, 2020 at 9:02 | comment | added | user2390246 | "the recruiter will assume it's you" - that seems quite far fetched. | |
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| Mar 27, 2020 at 8:30 | history | answered | Gizmo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |