The New Employment Environment

I am totally taken back by the new Job Market that we are facing these days. I've been looking for a job for about a year and the old days are dead and gone. Now I have to have a Linkedin page, search for jobs on sites like indeed.com & monster.com, read Craigslist ads, Email my Resume and then possibly get a one on one job interview, but more often than that, a Telephone interview.

Not only are employers checking for drug abuse, they have access to your Credit Scores now and search the Web for any Social Media you participate in. What ever happened to my "Time Off" being my business? I'm rather outspoken on occasion, does that make it a risk to be myself online? I am now to be judged by my Social Media conduct and not just my ability to perform the job in a Professional manner now?

Computing has come a long way toward making everything more efficient, but we hit the point of diminishing returns in regards to employment. When an Employer is able to access your out of work habits and thoughts, it really starts to get to the heart of how Social Media is changing our lives at a pace that outstrips most everything else. We might as well get on with the whole implanted RFID & GPS location devices at this point. Oh wait... Too late... Your new fancy American Express Blue card uses RFID and your phone has a GPS locator built into it.

Does anyone else find this scary?

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