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- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+64WANTED:
Self-starting, hard-working young person with 5 years experience creating horrendous personal web pages that cause computer crashes because of countless plugins, varying opacity styling, and infinitely looping picture slideshows.
Desired skills also include cam-whore style photography, wearisome writing abilities, and a 60,000-plus MySpace friends network. Ability to overuse pseudo-words such as "LOL", "O RLY", and "BF4EVAR" is a plus. - The_Wallbanger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44A couple of days after the interview, it is customary to send a "Thanks for the add" message.
- LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -3/+42I just hope they're not hiring for webdesigners.
- thomasr05, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Sweet! Now my 15 year old sister can get a job and run away with child molester. One stop shopping at its best.
By the way I am sure the companies would love seeing pictures of their future employees drunk and/or half naked. - Mudcrutch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+33dugg for worst idea ever.
- clevershark, on 10/12/2007, -6/+36Myspace does have its use when fielding applicants for a job -- if they have a Myspace account, frankly they're likely not the sort of person I'd be looking for...
- Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23...because kids who emo out are just so damn productive...
Here's what I use MySpace for: (and yes, this is a joke)
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=71302833 - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Let's see... after you've trashed any possibility of getting the job you want with your myspace homepage, you can compete in the bottom-of-the-barrel job market space called MySpace-Careers!
...and some people don't believe Karma exists! - OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22MySpace Careers, AKA Walmart Careers.
- v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I don't think I'd want my future employer to see Tila Tequillla's ***** on my profile, if I had one.
- FinalDragoon06, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Beat me to that! I was going to say it's a good idea, but what employer is really looking for 14 year old girls?
- JakeMcMahon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Unless the job descriptions involve "crying, self harm and poetry", I don't think MySpace Jobs will take off.
- palmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12WRONG. That strip club out by the airport will be all over this.
- Dhalgren, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Who wants to hire a bunch of emo kids?
- Quactaur, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I don't see how getting a job on myspace will give you any credibility, or how posting for your company on it shows it takes the issue of employee qualiy seriously at all. Unless you want to work in a fast food restaurant or something.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10She have a resume?
- Dakk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Don't forget... picture taken in a mirror with digital camera in view because they can't find a real life friend to take their picture or are so technically challenged they can't use the timer on said camera. If you can't figure out the timer, you're not even qualified for a fry station in fast food...
- justice7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9it won't fly
reason? its myspace......... its like saying you're posting your resume/looking for a job on Geocities
i'm applying.. have a look at my myspace profile and see all my friends.. and what music i like..
lol.. what a joke - aplusplus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9It's going to be disappointing when retail managers secure interviews with good looking girls. Only to find out that they weigh 400 pounds and one side of their face is missing.
- bigteebo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Considering how many girls show risque user pictures of them, I'm betting TONS of gentlemen's clubs will be over it.
I can just see 99% of the ads being for "model", and plenty of applicants Myspace: setting the women's movement back 20 years. - balleyne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7but MySpace is TERRIBLE for keeping in touch with your friends!! The search is terrible, it's filled with softporn and trashy web design...
Also, it's really mainly a virtual community. However, with something like Facebook, they've successfully added a virtual component to REAL communities - you can actually FIND your friends or people that you haven't spoken to for years, and the interface is clean, efficient, and well designed.
I'm sorry, but MySpace is just a really trashy tool if your purpose is to stay in touch with your friends. - SmeRndmGy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8that is the sort of grammatically incorrect rambling incoherent sentence about nothing that can be found on Myspace.com! Myspace.com: educating tomorrow's leaders. Just think, the person who will be the president of the United States in about 25 years is probably sitting on myspace right now writing bad poetry about how he hates his parents because they made him clean his room and how they would have to clean it if he cut his wrists open in the middle of the floor. On the background of his page there are 6 different bad loud rap songs about hos frontin on cheddah that all play at the same time, drowning each other out. These are the people who are going to be running things when we are all old and feeble.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I dugg you down because your comment height to comment usefulness ratio was too big.
- shosterman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I foresee a flood of minor league coaches for hire.
"45 years old, experienced, works well with kids...." - crawf061, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7i swear.. it was a tragic skiing accident
- kazsymonds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Fake jobs for fake people, everyones a winner, where do i sign!
- gamesector, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Somebody tell MySpace to stop diversifying and to fix the problems with the services they already provide! $500 million and still no redesign, they're just a bunch of greedy retards.
- siekosunfire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@pixelmixer
The parent comment accurately describes what any sound manager would practice. If your MySpace, or any personal website or web log for that matter, is a horrible affront to grammar and spelling conventions it reflects your inability to communicate well and will be a detriment. Communication skills aside, employers can assess whether you meet certain criteria; for instance, if you were applying to a law firm, your employer wouldn't want you to engage in frequent drug use, underage drinking, etc.
That aside, there are better ways to stay in touch with friends - everything from phone calls to getting out of the house to visit them. - dbt777, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Hahaha, I feel sorry for the companies that go with this... WAIT, no company will!
- SnapETom, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Dugg for the hilarity of the comments and the ***** of the idea!
- VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why would anyone want a prospective employer to see their awful embarrassing Myspace page?
- Kwipper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can see it now. The employer will see resumes that say...
"You should hire me because I got 30,000 friends at myspace.com and if you hire me, you can be promoted in my top 10 friends list!"
Hire me! I like ***** and i am a real goth unlike those ***** posers on the internet. I am a non-conformist and I am a good writer too. (insert stupidly insipid goth poetry here)
Hire me becuase I can't seem to get my life together and I love whining about it like a little bitch on myspace.
OMGWTF! U SHULD HRE ME CAUS I R T3H L33t 1NE! I PWN NWBS AT COUNTERSTRIKE!!11q
I hate my life and I wana kill myself!
My mom hates me and I wana work so I can get away from her. - CharlesV, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5More than likely people would make a "careers" profile, seperate from their "social" one. While most current myspace profiles are full of sluts and idiots, it's because most people on myspace are looking for an easy lay, not a job. It's possible that the average "quality" of the profiles will increase as this service launches, once people realize there's actually an upside to dignity and intelligence on myspace.
Not to mention there are some industries and jobs (waitressing at a gentlemen's club, concert promotion, even general marketing positions) where your look and your style do have an impact on your job performance. Seems like an easy way to build a street team (though I wouldn't necessarily call that a 'career'). - 4degrees, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2myspace careers eh? is this where the pedophiles go to get jobs?
or is it where teens can go to get a job framing would-be pedophiles? - Noelix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Like I want anyone in the business world to read my MySpace and see photos of me wearing a Mr. Incredible costume for halloween. Digg for the use of the word *****, SnapETom.
- CharlesV, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5That's the main reson I never use myspace. It's so damned ugly (and allows easy control over the user to make things totally unreadable and add auto-playing sound to their profiles. I can't even SEE the content to know what a douche you are.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's not pro- or con-Myspace...it's just information. News isn't supposed to be biased, regardless of how much the author likes or dislikes the topic.
- strangewill, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I'd hardly call the responses "pro"
- dbt777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ohhh, i got idea! :D
we can make emo merchindise. we can make washable 'slit wrist' tattoos, and even a long piece of jet black hair to hang over one eye!!! OH MY GOD! ....BALLS! - Daryl209, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You know....Myspace isn't only for emo kids who have nothing better to do with their lives. I use it to stay in contact with old friends.
And I have a job....:) - HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4You've just summarized why I refuse to join the site. Congratulations.
- tds5016, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1shhh! don't get the emo kids running over the facebook! They just opened it up to HS kids, that's the start. Next they're going to be allowing accounts from domains like @michealjackson.com. Keep it secret as long as possible, it's our last bsatian of hope :-D.
- Zipbob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You're wrong, emo jokes ARE funny.
And this will be just great for anyone starting an emo design company. Or a suicide squad. - v3xt0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1btw: it should be illegal, as it will allow profile-browsing to influence discrimination. (pictures, religion, ethnicity, age, etc.)
I don't think any credible employers or recruiters will want to interact w/ myspace to find employess, except for perhaps in the shady adult or commercial music industry. - kamel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2My lysdexia just kicked in. I read the title as "Myspace Launches Careers." I thought, isn't this the potentially career destroying site?
- Kwipper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1... and a established member of NAMBLA.
- mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Now a Facebook careers section would be ALOT more desirable and useful.
- EpicSA, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Excellent. Soon the job market will be crawling with Hair Stylists, Hot Topic grunts, and pyramid schemes.
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I was talking about the article itself, not the comments. Of course the comments are going to flame Myspace, since it sucks.
- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6ok... thats just stupid. What about all those people who have them simply to stay in contact with friends? It has nothing to do with business and it has nothing to do with design. I am a webdesigner, I get paid for what i do and I have a Myspace. Granted, I dont grossly overuse the abilities of myspace (eg. I still have the default layout), but I dont see why anyone would do there, read about what i do for fun, then decide that I shouldnt work for their company based on what they've read. I rarely even use myspace... maybe 1-3 times per month, if that, but just because I have an account doesnt meant I shouldnt be considered in a job application. i cant express in words what a comment like yours says to people... its just... stupid (for lack of a better word) --maybe Moronic but thats a little too deep.....
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