Well, that clearly depends on what your job is.
As seen in this Slate piece on California's attempt to legislate a solution to Klout-based discrimination, there are legit hiring qualifications connected to competence with social media.
However, there are troubling questions about the use of a scoring system. What was left untouched by this article was how a rating on a social scoring system is distinct from a job-related skill--it's third-party and subjective. Code isn't objectively measuring anything by virtue of automating the measurement--someone has to decide what to measure and how to weigh those indicators.
Regardless of the interest Klout has in asserting that its ratings are a yardstick, it's important to note that in truth they're just a stick. And the prospect that they could be used as a proxy, to slide age or sex or racial discrimination in hiring past regulators, is a real problem.
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