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Unfortunately, when you’re in the first few years of your career, you’re pretty much the definition of replaceable. So when a potential new job opportunity comes up, you have to be incredibly careful when navigating the interview process so that your current supervisor doesn’t catch wind of what’s going on. After all, there are thousands upon thousands of new grads every August willing to accept slightly above minimum wage to take on your current role at a moment’s notice. Until you’ve become irreplaceable in the company, your boss should never know that you were looking for a new role until you have an offer letter in hand.
However, keeping new job interviews out from under your boss’s nose is about to become a whole lot harder thanks to a new startup. Company Joberate is out to be a tattletale to your employer and will notify them as soon as they believe you’re hunting for a new job. Great. Joberate works by compiling what they call a “J-Score,” which is determined by your social media activity. Cleaning up your profiles, increasing your LinkedIn activity, and clicking on articles relevant to interviewing all get added into the score, so your employer can sneakily check in on you and see just how likely you are to be job hunting.
If you’re just social media-savvy and spend plenty of time on your LinkedIn as is, well, you may be screwed. It might be wise to unfollow a few career-oriented Facebook pages, or at least stop giving them likes and thumbs-up, since your boss can now monitor your every move. Thankfully, Joberate can’t identify any action set to “private” on your social media accounts, so take a moment, if you haven’t already, and privatize all of your social media presences. The last thing you need in the 4Q16 is to trade in your year-end bonus for a severance package. Best of luck to you, and here’s hoping we all somehow manage to keep our jobs. .
[via Washington Post]
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Steph W. is a new Master's degree graduate with an intern's salary and six-figure taste. She realizes her expectations far exceed reality, so she spends her days pinning away Loubs she pretends are in her physical closet instead of her virtual one. Her hobbies include attempting to trapping her boyfriend into marriage before he finds out how insane she is and pretending that Black Box wine tastes as good as the kind she could afford when she was gainfully employed. Send her tips for getting out of student debt at recruitchairtsm@gmail.com
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Yo, fuck this company.
Stop Snitchin’.
Or get stitches…
Bet ATLguy works for this company.
The world is coming up with more ways to take away personal freedom, frightening.
Fuck this shit. I should be able to interview for a job at Gucci without getting fired from my job at Ralph Lauren.
no Friends fans out there?
K.
Professional tattle-tales.
I hate so much about the things they choose to be.
If your current employer fires you because you are thinking of good career moves, you don’t want to be working for them anyway. Companies that don’t care about their employees as people tend to operate at lower efficiency. Then again, as a software engineer at a company known for how much they care about their employees, I may have a skewed perception.
Sad to see that this is what qualifies as a startup. Sort of brings to the mind the “dude, where is my flying car?” question with respect to what we now consider to be cutting edge and/or new.
So is this startup hiring? I have no shame.
Broke into a cold sweat just reading the title