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.
But just as keeping our professional and personal lives separate has become more important, we’re finding that maintaining that distinction has become more difficult. So, what should you do if you Google your own name and come up with unsavoury results?
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.
But just as keeping our professional and personal lives separate has become more important, we’re finding that maintaining that distinction has become more difficult. So, what should you do if you Google your own name and come up with unsavoury results?
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