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Please suggest privacy friendly ways to Job hunt
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this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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When you are job hunting you don't want privacy, you want your info (i.e. your cv) as widely distributed and known as possible. Create a dedicated gmail account.
The key is to keep your professional internet profile andnl your private digital life separated.
Just a warning that LinkedIn and the like try to link your private and corporate information.
Its true but they also aren't accounting for people actively trying to prevent that. Like someone else said below, dedicated email, dedicated phone number, use containers in your browser, use a work profile on your phone, etc. It may raise red flags somewhere but it is what it is.
That’s what I do, but they tied my work email to my LinkedIn profile anyway… I keep my personal life offline aside from work and use pseudonyms on systems like this, so they aren’t linking the rest of my life, but they didn’t have any issues tying down my professional identity.
Like they went and investigated you to find out what your work email is and then applied it to your profile without your consent?
It’s not in my profile, but if you search my work address, my profile is the single result.
Great advice. I got a cheap Chromebook, a burner flip-phone, and use Google docs, meet, email, etc only when on that system.