CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) integration with ActivityPub: follow @thecupid@cupid.careers, answer polls, find like-minded people who would be great co-workers. (communick.news)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by rglullis@communick.news to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I've been running https://cupid.careers/ for some years already, and now I've got the first step into integrating with ActivityPub. The site now has a AP service which posts questions to the overall Fediverse and people can follow from their preferred AP platform.

There is a lot more to be done. The questions are written by me and therefore completely focused on tech workers (something that I would like to change and help people in all sorts of industries). The website itself is pretty bare-bones. But the idea that one can actually use AP as a "proper" application protocol instead of just emulating existing centralized social networks really appeals to me.

This might be a "job site", but the idea is that it can be useful and helpful even for those who are happy at their jobs. E.g, if your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded, it would make perfect sense to join in and browse around.

It can be what LinkedIn should've been: a tool for networking, without the tools of self-promotion and clout-chasing.

Unfortunately, Lemmy does not follow AP users and it still does not know how to handle polls, so you will need an account on some of the micro-blogging platforms.

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[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago

your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded

This is a mistake. When building any kind of team, you want diversity of experience, backgrounds, viewpoints etc. A mono-culture is extremely prone to group-think and is unlikely to generate ideas as quickly or elegantly as a team comprising many different types of people.

The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider "culture-fit" when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).

You should hire people based on their ability to perform the job, and nothing else.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider “culture-fit” when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).

There's a difference between "culture fit" and "hive mindedness". I've seen singular employees turn a good workplace into one with strife because that one employee has vastly different goals about how to run things, and it doesn't go away until that employee is fired.

Also, it's not about discriminating against future hires. It's about not hiring shitty employees who would discriminate against their own co-workers.