Conform or Be Cast Out
If you haven't caught this summer's Aleksey Vayner lynching, there's an interesting counterintuitive take at Conform or Be Cast Out.
For the purposes of OIM, how would YOU feel if your more refined and not-so-maligned submission for a specific job were broadcast to the web? Now THINK about this for a minute before just snapping off some smart-alek, self-righteous answer.
Nearly every resume coach on the planet recommends you create MULTIPLE VERSIONS of your resume to target specific situations an opportunities. However, if an employer who did not hire you and had no intention of hiring you, publicized your resume in a way that some other prospective employer might get the impression that "that isn't what THIS VERSION of the resume said," and subsequently attacked you for being duplicitous or even dishonest, how would you feel about that?
In review:
- Step One, you are advised by the university's career counselor to tailor opportunity-specific resumes and cover letters.Step Two, an employer accuses you of LYING because the resume he or she received differs from another version he or she found on the internet.
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4 Comments:
If I was in his place I would feel stupid and angry. However it can be avoided by just telling all to begin with or sticking with one résumé. Forgive me for being so “self righteous” but who out there hasn’t had one or two bad jobs, he deserved what he got.
I don't think you are being self-righteous at all; and I agree with your basic premise. My point, as is typical of this blog, revolves more around the concept of reasonable expectations for privacy and self-directed Online Identity Management (OIM). I'm with you, in substance, but which of us does not present a slightly different version of ourselves to a parent, versus a spouse, or a friend? Or, in business, to our direct manager versus a customer or a colleague.
I guess one of my concerns here is that we could ALL be called out as arrogant, dishonest, bloviating hypocrits, if one trusted relationship betrays us to others. I'm probably doing a terrible job of explaining, off the cuff, but perhaps the gist will make it through. :)
I’m a teenager so forgive my lack of knowledge, Corporate America has personality tests. Almost every place I apply they want to know who I am. Now as I have nothing to hide I answer honestly. It seems they use the internet as a way of figuring out who you are. Your persona on the web is just like the rest of your daily versions with your wife, kids, friends, who be it. Maybe this is a good thing to a certain extent; I mean if some dude is putting how he loves doing coke on his myspace is it wrong for his probation officer to call him on said offence. I don’t think there will ever be away to disappear of the web completely. The only way to be off the map is to get off and stay off.
Side note** this is completely off topic
What the hell is with all this money shit? I mean we have more and more cards to pay for us that nobody carries cash.. “It’s safer because its harder for people to steal your money.” Bull. Man has physical limits and we know them so we put up walls of steel and keep dilholes out. The human mind still has so much left to tap and technology becomes out dated fast. All it would take is some dude working out of his basement and BAM! He’s rich because he figured out how to get passes virtual blocks. I think that in certain areas of life we are relying on technology too much.
Adam: You make some great points:
"Your persona on the web is just like the rest of your daily versions with your wife, kids, friends, who be it."
I agree, and this is why YOU should have access to the tools to manage that persona. YOU get to decide what you wear before you go outdoors; YOU get to decide which car to drive, etc.
"if some dude is putting how he loves doing coke on his myspace is it wrong for his probation officer to call him on said offence."
Again, you are correct. If a person puts information on MySpace, that is their choice, along with the consequences. However, if that person comes to their senses at some point, and wishes to PERMANENTLY eliminate that information, then they should have that RIGHT. If we were all held permanently accountable for any isolated indiscretion, we would ALL be in trouble. There are no innocents in the world, not even children; just visit any playground to see absolute selfish cruelty in it's "purest" form. Hope this helps to clarify what I'm talking about, here. Thanks for commenting.
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