companies check job canidates on social sites

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What is your view on companies, potential employers or schools checking up on you using social sites, such as myspace.com or facebook.com? More and more I read of how people are being denied employment or even scholarships after someone gets finished checking out their pages on these sites, do you think this is right? Do you think this is ethically correct for a buisness to do? How can the employer be sure that this information is even factual? Is it prejudice if a company was to look at your page and not agree to your lifestyle and deceide not to hire you? If it is on the internet it is public information right?

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

The employer has every right to make a decision on a hire based on any and all personal background, police, and credit reports. However, discrimination on:

* Age
* Disability
* Equal Pay
* National Origin
* Pregnancy
* Race
* Religion
* Retaliation
* Sex
* Sexual Harassment

Is against federal law.

 

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a lot of these sites do allow you to list your religous preference, but i doubt if you were being passed by for being islamic they would actually tell you. or if they read your blog and found out that you just got pregnant and were trying to get a job to obtain insurance that they would come out and say this? i kinda feel like this type of searching of a potential employee could harvest some prejudice noations, but at the same time you don't have to post your personal information on the internet for the public to see.

 

[sharpies]

It leaves a lot of room for abuse, but on the other side, if you were the employer & you found out that the candidate had some sort of anti-social problem - belonged to a Nazi group, or radical religious sect - then maybe they may not fit into your workplace.

Unless of course you were a radical religious Nazi group looking for new recruits.

Allan

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

Of course the employer would not use one of the federally protected claims for rejection/ejection from a workplace, but the employer needs some sort of security for his own benefit, so the more open knowledge, the better.

 

[Haus]

thats why i tell my friends that have that myspace or xanga bullshit to watch what they say on those sites. i heard about this a while ago. and they still dont listen. alot of shit on there sites is about smoking weed and alot of illegal shit they do.

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

Yep. Cops use myspace and xanga to track down people on parole and shit too. But the smart people don't do things they are ashamed of letting the world know

 

[Haus]

why does your custom title read i :dunno

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

good question... :dunno

 

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all you have to do to block people from viewing your profile on myspace is to change your age to 15 then only friends can view your profile.

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

Re: RE: companies check job canidates on social sites

all you have to do to block people from viewing your profile on myspace is to change your age to 15 then only friends can view your profile.

Misleading personal information will not get you a job either. Honesty and trustworthiness mixed with the ability to make a company a lot of money secure your job :tard

 

[UncleBacon]

I think its wrong that employers are doing it....the only part I can agree with is if they are doing illegal shit and bragging about it...but is someone is just a freak outside of work and he or she leaves it outside of work there should be no problems...I believe that it will start to fall under discriminations

 

[mdvaldosta]

A business should take every precaution possible to ensure their hiring the person they 'think' they are.

 

[UncleBacon]

so if you have a kick ass employee that is a freak on the side and doesn't bring there private life to work you would fire them over something you saw on the internet

 

[AtlanticBlue99]

No bacon, I would not hire them to start with. If you already hire them, performance on the job is all that matters or it is liable to be a discriminatory expulsion. New hires should be careful about their lives in and out of work.

 

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Re: RE: companies check job canidates on social sites

all you have to do to block people from viewing your profile on myspace is to change your age to 15 then only friends can view your profile.

Misleading personal information will not get you a job either. Honesty and trustworthiness mixed with the ability to make a company a lot of money secure your job :tard

limiting viewer's is not misleading information, unless you are talking about the display age, but needless to say how do they know this is really your page, unless you have your pictures up.

also what about them checking out your friends, let's say one of your friends does have a page with drug related pictures, or other incriminating stuff? is it safe for an employer to assume you are guilty by association?

 

[99mustang232]

if i was an employer i would research them using the web, or even pay to run credit checks on them.

 

[JMilley]

damn I hate those goddamn sites like myspace but I work in Einstein Bagels >_<

 

[Jersey]

Re: RE: companies check job canidates on social sites

if i was an employer i would research them using the web, or even pay to run credit checks on them.

what does a credit score have to do with being a good employee or not?

 

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they are more likely to steal or take money under the table