Signal S01

Late-night posting

Remove

The vendor says: “Posting between midnight and 5 a.m. indicates low discipline.”

Moves the score by up to −8 pointsFeeds: reliability

The six questions

1. Is it related to the job?
When someone posts says nothing about how they work. Night shifts, caregiving, study, tutoring and time-zone work all produce late posts.
Fail
2. Does it stand in for who someone is?
Tracks health (weak), religion (weak). Sleep patterns can reflect medical conditions.
Concern
3. Is it the right person?
Timestamps belong to the account that posted.
Pass
4. Did the candidate publish it, and would they expect an employer to use it this way?
Candidates post for friends, not for employers.
Concern
5. Does it work equally for everyone?
Applies to anyone who posts publicly.
Pass
6. Is there a less intrusive way?
No less intrusive way to learn the same thing was identified.
Pass

Rule applied

If a signal has no link to the job or to joining (question 1 fails), remove it.

Conditions

None. A removed signal is not used under any condition.

Van Iddekinge et al. (2016): Facebook ratings did not predict job performanceEvidence
Recruiters rated job-seeking students' Facebook profiles; the students were followed into their jobs. Ratings were unrelated to supervisor-rated performance, turnover intentions or actual turnover, added nothing beyond standard predictors, and differed across groups, favouring women and White applicants.
EU Article 29 Working Party, Opinion 2/2017 on data processing at workReference only
European regulators' guidance on employee and applicant data. Employers should not assume that a public profile may be processed simply because it is public; screening must be necessary and relevant to the job, and applicants must be told.
K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India: privacy and proportionalityIndian law
The Supreme Court held privacy to be a fundamental right and applied a proportionality test to intrusions: a legitimate aim, a rational connection to it, no less restrictive means that would work, and a fair balance between the aim and the intrusion.

Meera Krishnan · Instagram · English
“Two students cleared their pre-board maths today. Worth every late night.”
Meera Krishnan · Instagram · Tamil
“Finally finished the DBMS assignment. Sleeping now, alarm at 6.”
Meera Krishnan · Instagram · English
“Session with my Grade 10 batch ran over again. Quadratics are hard at midnight.”
Fatima Shaikh · Instagram · Urdu
“Sehri with the family before a long lab day.”
Rahul Sharma · Instagram · English
“Saturday night, rooftop, the usual suspects. 🍻”
Rahul Sharma · Instagram · English
“Worst client call of my life, 7 years into this job and still.”