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Information Technology News Be careful what you put on Facebook: your next job could depend on it.
Information Technology News Be careful what you put on Facebook: your next job could depend on it. | Be careful what you put on Facebook: your next job could depend on it. |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 02 November 2007 | |
  
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The issue of misuse of Facebook information surfaced in Australia last week when ABC Television's Mediawatch programme reported that photographs of an Australian soldier (and of his family) who had been killed in Afghanistan that were published in newspapers had been download from his unrestricted-access entry on Facebook and used without his family's permission. And prospective employers are likely to find at least some information on most of their candidates. The Crone Corkill's poll revealed that 86 percent of its job candidates used Facebook regularly, and over 75 percent of respondents from FSS, a finance sector recruiter, said that Facebook was the site they used the most. The practice is however questionable. Crone Corkill said: "However some have argued that these online profiles are personal and that companies should not mix the business and private lives of candidates...Other concerns about this practice include the possibility of researching the wrong person and the problem of comments falsely made in someone's name." But it does not anticipate this being a deterrent. "As social networking sites continue to grow in number, popularity and influence, it is almost certain that many companies will be considering using them as another tool in the recruitment process."{moscomment} |
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