[Foundation-l] Kronberg Declaration on the Future of Knowledge Acquisition and Sharing (DRAFT)

[Andrew Gray]

On 04/07/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Why not set up a sort of wiki-curriculum vitae, where the resume is not
> > only written by the person, but by the co-workers, who can leave their
> > comments. This is also the type of service one can find in social network.
>
> This gets into the areas where, in the US, employers are cautioned by
> their HR and legal staff not to tread.  Companies and managers have
> been successfully sued for putting negative comments out to potential
> employers...

"I can confirm that Smith worked here from 1979 to 1983. Yours etc."
is not negative per se, but gets the message across. :-)

[I do see your point, though]

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- Andrew Gray
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