i was in a staff meeting at work a while back and someone brought up the fact that businesses are now going online and looking up potential new hires' facebook and myspace profiles... they are doing this to see if they have any malicious, character-defining, less-than-sober, or otherwise "generally bad" content within their profiles. (this was pertinent to the meeting because I working for OSU and students need to be aware of this)
I was not aware of these happenings and was a little disturbed... students are getting overlooked/denied for potential jobs because they posted a picture that their buddy took of them bonging a beer the first weekend of their freshmen year of college... HOLY CRAP... this strikes me as the most ridiculous way to discover someones character/work-ethic/ability to excel in one's future job that i have EVER heard of. In fact, i bet that if 80 percent of the businessmen/women that are looking for this information were to try and remember back 20 or 30 years to when they were in college, that they would be fired on the spot, just for thinking about all the drugs and/or alcohol that have passed through their systems, if they were to be held to the same standards that they are holding their potential new hires to...
Nevertheless, companies are doing this... so job-seekers BEWARE! That picture of you and Lisa kissing to "experiment" at a date party your sophomore year - could deem you unworthy of becoming the head janitor at that big oil company you've been eyeing.
-dwb
Happy Distractions
12 years ago
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Funny... we were looking to hire last year, and we were looking at MySpace pages to make sure we weren't hiring a dud. We liked to see them having fun on their pages. I guess us teachers just know what really matters in a potential employee!!
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