Thursday, September 10, 2009
WorkScore: A Social Resume
WebWorkerDaily: "Some employers don’t place a lot of credence on traditional resumes: even a completely truthful resume may not provide a clear impression of a prospective employee’s abilities and skills. WorkScore, which launches today, is a system that allows you to gather documentation and confirmation of your skills from your co-workers, allowing you to offer a potential employer a “social resume.”"
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I really don't know if i like the idea of social resume's. It seems like a good outlet for workplace violence of a sort. And its potential for employers is limited because the prospective employee can choose which comments are seen by employers. If this idea takes off, and becomes widely used, it may make sense. But until entire companies are using it, this is a useless program.
I agree with Brian in that a social resume sounds like a good idea, but I don't think this is going to replace the classic printed resume. Sure you can rate your co-workers and the company that you work for, but it bothers me that you can tell the site to ignore a comment someone made about you if you believe is not based on anything. I guess this is just like your classic resume where you can control what your to be employer is going to see, but the point of online rating is to get an realistic view of what kind of worker you are. I'm interested to see whether or not employers actually use this site.
I was a little confused, because on the one hand, you can moniter what is seen by employers, but on the other hand it said that the subject of the review doesn't actually see the comment. Does that mean you can only block people who you think might speak poorly of you.
I also went to the actual website, and CMU was in their database. which must mean some cmu staff/faculty are on it. I was debating making an account just to see what people said about working here.... It seems more like a website for bashing then a true reflection of a person's abilities.
At the same time isn't a recommendation almost just picking someone you know that will (hopefully) think highly of you? While it could just be an outlet for "workplace violence" as Brian puts it, I could see how having a variety of employer as well as peer comments could be helpful. Obviously the "blocking" action is an attempt to prevent malicious attacks, but it just seems like the presentation is skewed by the potential employee. I agree with Kelli, I wonder if this "Social Resume" will actually catch on.
This seemed like a good idea until I got to the part where it said the reviewee could delete reviews from people who he or she believed did not have an objective opinion. Well, it's all fine and dandy to claim that's the purpose of the review subject having so much control, but who wouldn't just delete any negative reviews? While the concept makes sense, I don't think there's any way to tweak this system so that all the reviews are fairly written and potential employers get the full story about someone.
I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this... I truly am split. I see how it is a great concept, and I think an paper it looks amazing, where else would a prospective employer be able to get such candid information about a prospective employee? But there are definite issues with this social resume system. First of all, one shouldn't be able to remove comments about themselves, because that ruins the whole point of the website, but on the other hand, this would be an easy way to target someone you just don't like, but is a good worker, so there really isn't a right answer. Second of all, I think it is important that there is still a human aspect to the job finding process. I feel like this site will give a reason for employers to no longer call references, when that is one of the most valuable things you can do to find out if someone is good for a company... I guess the internet truly is taking over our lives!
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