Thread: Be afraid, be VERY afraid

Job applicants have been subject to a google and social media search for many years now. The results are then in danger of being used as a filter based on personal bias of the individual employer. You will never know as just did not get an interview or that promotion did not come through. There is always a reason why you were not selected based on other information or a ranking process rather than the social media which may never even be mentioned in the file.

Re job applicants being vetted for characteristics that have nothing to do with the job or their ability to perform the duties. I started work in 1957 as a 1st. year apprentice. Quite common then for applicants to be ignored or short listed on the basis of colour, religion, old school, lodge affiliation, family, father's club, marital status. For example, I knew of employers who did not employ "niggers, Jews, and Catholics". Others would not employ a married woman and girls were expected to resign when they married. Some govt. depts. were orange and others were green. Some Qld. public service units endeavoured to only employ school leavers from particular schools. Questions at an interview might include "What is your father's lodge/club" "What are your parent's families." A major Brisbane manufacturing firm would not employ Irish or Irish descent Roman Catholics as they were "disloyal" and "untrustworthy". On several occasions when applying for jobs as an adult the interviewer gave me Masonic recognition clues and a Masonic handshake.