I love Jobster and this post is not a slam on them. But I suppose this kind of honesty was inevitable given Jobster's ever-improving functionality: Check out the Jobster page of Caleb Founds of Lutheran Social Services. Would you want to work at LSS after reading Caleb's comments? Possibly not. Are the comments true? Who knows.
And that's what's troubling here.
If I were a company and Caleb applied for a job, I'd think carefully about hiring him. Imagine if you were Caleb's would-be boss. Would you be concerned that he might write something about you? Caleb, if you're reading this -- I'm not saying that you would, but I am saying that you have sowed this fear with your comments.
And if I were a jobseeker considering a position at LSS, I'd think carefully about working there after reading Caleb's post. Lose / Lose. Should Jobster remove the page? Well, if they did, it might undermine the whole idea of being able to read exactly what it's like to work at any given company.
Again, I'm not knocking any of the parties to this webpage -- just observing. Maybe we're headed in the direction of some sort of neutral, third party system where employees and employers rate each other. Privacy issues aside, this might be something like a credit score. What do you think?
How might such a system change the nature of work?
