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Beware Your Online Presence

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the watch-what-you-put-out-there dept.

Mz6 wrote to mention an article in the NY Daily News stating that an increasing number of employers are Googling their prospective employees during the interview/hiring process. From the article: "'A friend of mine posted a picture of me on My Space with my eyes half closed and a caption that suggests I've smoked something illegal,' says Kluttz. While the caption was a joke, Kluttz now wonders whether the past two employers she interviewed with thought it was so funny. Both expressed interest in hiring Kluttz, but at the 11th hour went with someone else."

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  1. I feel sorry for the goatce man then... by jigjigga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Obligatory

  2. MOD DOWN -- REDUNDANT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All this guy did was cut-and-paste a joke posted 20 minutes earlier from someone further down the screen. Typical karma-whoring here.

  3. (OT, sorta, a little...) MOD DOWN -- REDUNDANT by pegr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All this guy did was cut and paste his own joke back into the thread. It was just an experiment, actually. My first joke post was modded to 0, and while I don't consider my joke to be the funniest ever, it certainly wasn't worth a zero, so I posted it back into the thread. Funny thing, the zero post was then modded up, and the second was (correctly) modded to -1, redundant. I guess the moderation (sorta) works! Now if clueless AC's want to trash my (not so) good name, at least get the facts straight...

    As for Kluttz, I guess if you want to hire a 27 year old twinkie with pink nail polish with a myspace blog about how hardy she parties, she's the girl for you! My advise would be, when you are no longer a child, you put away your childish things. She just thinks she's still seventeen. She is kinda cute, though. I'd take her home, but not before 2am... Unless she had some killer. That might move her up to about 10pm.

    Note that no amount of Googling will connect my true identity with this post, for I, while many things, am not an idiot. Maybe that's the true test. (If your dumb enough to use your real identity online....)