LinkedIn locked me out of my own account. The only way back is through Persona — a third-party service that wants a photo of my passport, a scan of my face, and a recording of my movements (liveness detection: turn your head, follow the dot, so a still photo can’t stand in for me). The stated reason: “unusual activity.” The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.
And yet 99% of good paying jobs won’t even consider you if you don’t have a LinkedIn. You don’t have to apply on there, or even be active, but you do need one.
I used to host my own professional portfolio. Maybe it’s time to do that again. It was just easy html that I whipped up in KompoZer.
It used to show publications, training certificates, codes, visualizations of analytic codes, hobbyist builds, etc.
That’s news to me I haven’t heard that yet.
I do know a lot of corporate jobs make you hand over social media handles and passwords to do a deep dive on you, then run all your information through threat detection software to see the likelihood that you will develop a case of morals or patriotism that would lead you leak details of the company. That was going on 15 years ago, can’t imagine how bad it is now for banks and the like.