> From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:j.vanbaardwijk@;chello.nl] > > First, an employer who would use a couple of e-mails as a > reason to not > hire a person, would be a lousy employer anyway. If he uses > that sort of > methods, he is likely to use other questionable reasons as > well to decide > whether or not to fire an employee (such as "how often does > this employee > leave his desk to get some coffee?" and "I am a smoker -- is > this employee > opposed to smoking?"). Not the kind of employer *I* would > want to work for.
I have posted the last time this comes up that this is not true. As a person who has done hiring, when you have a stack of resumes 6 inches high for a position that are all basically identical you are looking for reasons *NOT* to hire some of them. A web search that brings up something like this might cause that resume to go into the "no" pile. I don't believe that makes me a bad employer or change the way I'm going to deal with someone once I do hire them. They are completely different things. > Second, it would not make any difference if I would put such > messages on a > website, because those messages are already a matter of > public record (they > are available from at least two on-line archives). Last time I checked, neither of those archives shows up when you do a google search. A page on your website probably would. - jmh _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
