[csmattryder]

It's not just employees, it's students.

My dissertation project is in a Github private repository, yet it looks like I abandoned Github - at least to the few people who seem interested in what I do.

Combine this with the use of StackOverflow Careers and Github Jobs, I might as well have died as far as potential employers are concerned.

[aspir]

Most employers know what a sudden and abrupt change in the graph really means. If someone's so short sighted enough to disqualify you on your contributions graph without so much as asking "why?", they don't respect your profession.

[syllogism]

What's the motivation for making your dissertation a private repo?

[csmattryder]

It is possible for another student at the Uni to find the repo, clone and turn it in and have us both up on plagiarism charges. It's unlikely, but I'd rather not run the marginal risk.

It was advised in my first year by a few tutors to just keep it in a private repo until hand-in. I'm fine with that, in fact, just publically listed a dodgy encryption algorithm I wrote for a class!