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One In Five Employers Scan Applicants' Web Lives
Ned Nederlander writes "CareerBuilder's new survey finds: 'Of those hiring managers who have screened job candidates via social networking profiles, one-third (34 percent) reported they found content that caused them to dismiss the candidate from consideration.' Some red flags: content about applicant using drugs or drinking, inappropriate photos and bad-mouthing former bosses."
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You don't think this is my real name do you?
No, this is the name of my mortal enemy.
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Full story, page 6.
Crap. We need more comments, people! I'm still showing only one page here.
This guy's the limit!
Solution for facebook: Just don't.
This guy's the limit!
How's the googling going? I hope you like reading my slashdot posts. And if you have karma, mod my posts up, too. In addition to hiring me with a nice fat salary.
So...
Step 1: Keep a professional "personal" site up where you praise your prior employers and you extol the virtues of work and your pride in your accomplishments at your job.
Step 2: (Optional) Keep a separate social site for your friends (which doesn't explicitly list you by name), also set to private.
Step 3: Get the names of the other applicants and set them up facebook accounts where they list their exploits stealing office supplies, being lazy/napping on the job, and taking pot breaks/drinking at work. Extra Credit for including the phrase "Man, I was so WASTED at work the other day!" anywhere in their profile.
Step 4: ???*
Step 5: Hired!
* Depending on state, Step 4 may be "Get sued for libel" (Do not go to step 5, do not collect a monthly paycheck).
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Oh I don't know... "Yeah... ummm that picture that was tagged of me on facebook while "I" was supposedly snorting cocaine while setting fire to a kennel full of puppies... ummm that was definitely a smear campaign!" It just sort of has that ring of unbelievability to it.
I got a catholic block.
That's easy to say when your family is just a shout upstairs away.
I make sure that if somebody Googles my real name, their first hit is my resume. Everything else is garbage.
It must be nice to have a name that dwells in relative obscurity. For those of us named things like "John Smith", "Charles Barkley", "Ron Jeremy" and "Clown Anal" that's not quite so easy.
I am the richest astronaut ever to win the superbowl.
I know what you mean. I, Devin Lott, of 1056 Arbor Way, 89120, am worried that if people find out that I save cats in my spare time, they'll hold it against me because they're dog people. Or they'll find out that one night a week I save children from burning buildings instead. Or even that I volunteer at the wrong soup kitchen.
Oh well, at least Doctors without Borders will be taking me out of the country for a year, so I won't have to worry about it until then.
I've been a victim myself of a web smear campaign, and I can tell you that it's no fun. Plus it will stay around forever, depending on how it's done.
I've seen a lot of negative things posted about you on the internet; I didn't realize that it was part of a smear campaign! From now on I will not trust anything I read about "Anonymous Coward"!
Where are these PGP settings? I can't find them anywhere and I'd really like to encrypt my Facebook page.
Dilbert: I'm the victim of an ugly rumor at work.
Dogbert: Are you saying that the rumor is ugly or that the rumor is that you are ugly?
Dilbert: I'm saying that the rumor itself is ugly.
Dogbert: I have some more bad news for you.
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
And the logic of posting photos of yourself in compromising situations online: There is none.
You are quite right. If the compromising photos are interesting enough, other people will post them for you...
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!