Looking for a job today is a privacy nightmare. I am starting to believe the application process is being used as a new revenue stream, to obtain data from applicants for profit.

I've been looking for a job, and it is very frustrating how many places think an application is a nice time to do some data harvesting. For example at one place I applied to, they use a third-party company to set up and record phone interviews. In order to proceed you have to agree to their aggressive harvesting of your data, and using your responses as part of AI research.

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During another companies process, they sent me an email …

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