You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles 195
theodp writes "A pending Google patent for Identifying Prospective Employee Candidates via Employee Connections lays out plans for data mining employees' social graphs to find top job candidates. According to the patent application, the system would consider factors including the performance of the employees at the company whose circles you are in — under the assumption that the friends of top performers are more likely to be top performers themselves. It's the invention of three Googlers, including an HR VP who was quoted recently in an article that questioned the wisdom of certain Google hiring practices said to encourage 'echo chamber' hiring."
Remind me (Score:5, Funny)
What's Google+?
Re:Remind me (Score:5, Funny)
You must be unemployed.
Re:Remind me (Score:5, Funny)
You can just call for Fly N. Eye, male prostitute, consultant of everything, brewer, luthier, archaeologist, physicist and holy man.
Can you set me up with a shrubbery? Maybe something with a two level effect and a little path running down the middle.
Job Application (Score:4, Funny)
Reason for leaving last job: Fired for spending all my time updating Google+. And posting on Slashdot.