http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/11/business/web.0611recruit.php
For some, online persona undermines a résumé
Many companies that recruit on college campuses have been using search
engines like Google and Yahoo to conduct background checks on seniors
looking for their first job. But now, college career counsellors and
other experts say, some recruiters are looking up applicants on social
networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Xanga and Friendster, where
college students often post risqué or teasing photographs and
provocative comments about drinking, recreational drug use and sexual
exploits in what some mistakenly believe is relative privacy.
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 counsellors 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.
Many career counsellors have been urging students to review their pages
on Facebook and other sites with fresh eyes, removing photographs or
text that may be inappropriate to show to their grandmother or potential
employers. Counsellors are also encouraging students to apply settings on
Facebook that can significantly limit access to their pages.
- The New York Times, International Herald Tribune
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