More Warnings Against Oversharing on MySpace

Skapare writes "Your next prospective employer might be watching your MySpace page, according to a story at the New York Times. And if you think Facebook is more private, maybe not if that prospective employer has an intern from the same school checking up on you." From the article: "Students may not know when they have been passed up for an interview or a job offer because of something a recruiter saw on the Internet. But more than a dozen college career counselors said recruiters had been telling them since last fall about incidents in which students' online writing or photographs had raised serious questions about their judgment, eliminating them as job candidates."

Comments

Woohoo!

[hpcanswers]

This is great news; my Facebook site is a combination resume, cover letter, and reference letters. Hey recruiters, this way!

Modern Net Exhibitionism and Slutism ...

[orangeguru]

On the Internet - everybody knows that you are a perv' ...

Not only MySpace

[cheese-cube]

Imagine if a prospective employer saw your Slashdot postings!

Employer: I'm sorry but your just not the person we're looking for.
You: But why?
Employer: We saw that all your Slashdot posts were rated -1 Troll and our company doesn't need anymore trolls.
You: Damn it!

Re:It's as much the employer's loss here

[kfg]

"Hi there, I'm completely wasted and people are drawing on me with a permanent marker. Hire me?"

What's she look like? I might have an opening.

KFG

Re:Not only MySpace...

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah, that's why I never get called into any job interviews.

Re:It's as much the employer's loss here

[Anonymous Coward]

No dude -- *she* has a couple of openings I'm interested in.

MOD PARENT UP!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

we can't have slashdot lose...

No, I'm sorry

[Unski]

I have no idea what is so bad about MySpace. You are clearly missing something..

Re:Good thing this doesn't happen to doctors

[lavaface]

But she is now known on the workfloor not for her brains or years of good work but her perky tits.

link to pics,plz ; )

Re:So?

[colinrichardday]

You can pretend to be somebody you're not, but by and large kids in particular are really savvy to this kind of "fronting".

So teenagers never get fooled by 40 year-old guys pretending to be seventeen?

Re:It's as much the employer's loss here

[Surt]

Personally, I set up a couple of fake myspace accounts for 'former employers' where they have a reference to what great work i've done, or how I solved a problem that really saved the companies ass ('sometimes I wonder if this company could have survived the last 2 years without the help of surt's real name here'. I bury it in with a ton of other material about the daughter's birthday or this or that so it won't look too blatant or fake hopefully. I believe it would be enough to fool most people's first search efforts, and should even pass an uncareful examination.

Anyone who goes googling for me on the internet is going to find that apparently there are a number of people who think really highly of me as a coworker.

Re:It's as much the employer's loss here

[Jace of Fuse!]

The fact is, employers don't want to work with people who publicly admit using drugs and dirty sex as their recreational time.

HR: What about that one gal you said you gathered lots of information about? From Myspace, was it?
DRONE: Ah yes, this one. *flips through the folder* She says she likes to "get drunk and have sex in an office setting."
HR: She's hired.

Re:Same problem with UseNet

[Lactoso]

Dude, are you SURE you removed them? I just googled 'Anonymous Coward' and got like a gazillion hits...