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Discrimination: Social media trails can get you hired?

Nick’s take This article gave me a headache. Amazon HR instructs managers to use job applicants’ social media footprints to make sure they hire more women and minorities. Is that discrimination or reverse discrimination or just plain illegal any way you slice it? And if a manager refuses to scour a job candidate’s social media for race and gender info, the manager gets fired? You can’t make this stuff up! What’s your take? Have your social media tracks ever helped you get a job? Or cost you a job? What will HR and employers think of next to discriminate —

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