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Can you tell us more? What signals should I be worried about employers looking at?

It’s worse and deeper than you’d want to know. That said most HR Tech companies and large corporate HR departments are incompetent so it’s not really as scary in practice as it sounds.

Also GDPR/CCPA has hamstrung a lot of this and HR depts are fairly petrified about it. Talent Acquisition, not so much…

Wait, how much worse, and how much deeper? Unless that kind of stuff is a trade secret.

Sorry, I’m being a little dramatic.

I mean the data part is a little scary. Look up People Data Labs. There are lots of these data aggregators and that data can be used for a lot of scary things. HR in practice is probably the least scary.

I know many people who have been fired for _liking_ a post on Facebook.

So there's that.

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