don't blog if you are looking for a job

[juan_gandhi]

about one in ten candidates had posted inappropriate messages or images in public forums, making them less desirable than candidates who always appear professional. The problems with having a less than stellar online persona were covered in a recent NPR story.

However, while resume padding has been around for years, online impersonation has only begun playing a role. What if your online profile included an inappropriate statement that you never made? In most online forums, anonymity and impersonations are trivially accomplished since you are never asked for verifiable information during enrolment. This becomes a two-stage problem. First, you must be able to identify that an impersonation is taking place. And second, you need to know how to take corrective actions.

In a recent survey, one in 10 hiring managers say they rejected candidates because of things they found out about them on the Internet.

Comments

[spamsink.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't take long to google-pad your online persona to push any undesirable information down a few screenfuls. Moreover, anyone who is active online but does not do a "vanity search" (or whatever the term is) regularly, i.e. 1-2 times a year at least, is a person hopelessly behind the times, to put it mildly.

[itman.livejournal.com]

Самое смешное, что иногда случается с точностью до наооборот. По-крайней мере, бывает так, что приходит приглашение на собеседование из компании, которую ругаешь. А что делать, не все же умееют пользоваться поисковыми машинами.

[ex-chrobin.livejournal.com]

ну и обратное верно, надо сказать -- don't blog if you're hiring. а то приходит приглашение на собеседование, смотришь на ФИО предполагаемого лида, находишь в moikrug'e, смотришь на послужной список, читаешь жж... акт девиртуализации совершен, можно не тратить время на беседы.

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[bravomail.livejournal.com]

Это ж просто копец. В ЖЖ люди могут писать что-то эпатирующее, просто чтобы привлечь читателей.