Mon, 12 Jun 2006

Online Remark Can Now Sink Job Candidate

To some extent this has always been the case in small towns - everybody knows everybody else's' business, and acts accordingly. But just because it's happened in "meat space" doesn't make it right. And with the growth of the "global village", it's probably a perfectly natural extension for folks to extend their noses into more other peoples business than ever before. But that still doesn't make it right.

It's one thing to search public databases for a prospective employees criminal record, and it's quite another to surf for his political opinions or party pranks. Kudos to Sylvania and the other companies mentioned who don't engage in this kind of pre-employment screening.

Companies are looking up job applicants on social networking sites like MySpace.

(link) [New York Times]

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