It’s a slippery slope. I mean, I want a new job. But at the same time, I don’t want all that info out there. What says you?
Privacy shouldn’t drastically affect your life to the point where you cannot pursue a career and establish yourself.
It doesn’t take much. I once put my name, job title and employer on LinkedIn. That was enough for someone to email my payroll officer and convince them to change my paycheck to a different bank account. I had no idea until my pay was missed.
My payroll officer was a dumbfuck, but that’s all it took.
That seems a bit…odd? I feel like there’s more to the story than just that.
i could add more detail, but it just raises further questions.
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The payroll officer was emailed from an aol.com address, not the company email domain.
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The bank account was changed to a branch in another state, several thousand kilometres away.
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My office was physically next to the payroll officer. Despite sitting 2 metres away, I was not contacted in-person at any stage.
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At least two staff members oversaw this.
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They just wrote off the money and paid me for the month again.
This triggered a policy change. Bank account updates had to be confirmed in-person after that.
Don’t ad. Apply direct. Separate email, number, name, always.
FWIW (overlooking the privacy issues w/ using Google, yes), you can generally add a + followed by <a string of your choosing> between your <email account name> and the “@gmail.com” to somewhat filter results internally (and maybe even tag the source of your email getting leaked/sold. /my2¢
Just share the information that other people need to know and don’t share things they don’t need to know. Most people on LinkedIn have a worksona anyway, they’re not sharing their personal life much
There is info I want to be private and info I want to be public. Everything on my CV is info I want to be public.
I only use Indeed.com so that my info is only siphoned from one place. I feel like they have good listings and they have options to hide some of your info from employers and random observers. Avoid linkedin at all costs, having a profile has gotten me zero benefits and it is an extreme pain deleting your account.
You can also take steps to protect your contact info, specifically your email/phone/address. I only put the city I’m from on my resume and you can use email masks or alts like firefox relay or protonmail plus, or just make a separate email only for work. For phone numbers I use JMP.chat to give me a second number to use solely for work and Indeed.
In the end a lot of your work info is gonna be pseudo-public, because you do need to convince prospective employers of who you are, but you can control the sphere of that information to keep it confined. Imo, having a stable job is worth that trade; you don’t have to do a deep dive into your personality or personal life to get a job. Just enough to be convincing
