When your online personality works against you
Sometimes we find shocking things about ourselves online. (Thinkstock)
If Irish poet
Brendan Behan were still alive today, he might want to amend his oft-quoted
words, “There’s no such thing as bad publicity, except your own obituary.”
These days, he’d surely need to add ‘inappropriate Facebook posts’ immediately after ‘obituary’. With the explosion of social media, job seekers are unintentionally showing their true colours more than ever. In some cases they are suffering very real consequences, such as being taken out of the running for a job or even losing an offer after it’s been extended.
Ninety-three percent of hiring managers said that they are likely to
look at candidates’ social profiles during the recruiting process,
according to Jobvite’s 2013 Social Recruiting Survey, which included
1,200 managers globally. Nearly 39% of US-based employers use social
networking sites to research job candidates and 43% of them said that
they have found information that factored into their decision not to
hire a candidate, according to a 2013 survey by global job site
CareerBuilder.com.These days, he’d surely need to add ‘inappropriate Facebook posts’ immediately after ‘obituary’. With the explosion of social media, job seekers are unintentionally showing their true colours more than ever. In some cases they are suffering very real consequences, such as being taken out of the running for a job or even losing an offer after it’s been extended.
Culled from the BBC NEWS
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