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littled
03-10-2006, 09:35 PM
:hmmm so i was surprised tonight to find out that one my friends who is a recruiter for a pretty huge company... has an entire dept. who reviews prospective applicants/gradautes for a my space page... and depending upon their profile may or may not hire 'em... :hmmm
Eleni
03-10-2006, 09:40 PM
:agree

I posted about this months ago...people thought I was exaggerating :disgusted
Most recruiters are googling people and looking on sites like myspace for background checks...and I also wrote how they love getting the dirt because it shows they are "doing their jobs" to their clients. What members do not realize is that they are actually creating a shadow resume that can and most likely WILL hurt their employment opportunities ...and this (for the recruiters) is easy, cheap and available. ...
antknee
03-10-2006, 09:48 PM
a friend of mine was at an interview last month....and the CEO pulled up her myspace page in the middle of her interview.

I don't think she got the job. :chuckle
Lance Burkhart
03-10-2006, 09:49 PM
wow that is crazy!
Eleni
03-10-2006, 09:53 PM
a friend of mine was at an interview last month....and the CEO pulled up her myspace page in the middle of her interview.

I don't think she got the job. :chuckle


what da...anyway that CEO is a herb.
What successful CEO of a company whips out an interviewer's MYSPACE page???
What was his point? Why even TAKE the interview and waste that time if he knew about the profile and was unimpressed by it? :yourcrazy :booted
John Kennedy
03-10-2006, 10:13 PM
it would probably help you too if your profile is normal and not filled with crack references and pictures of yourself half naked
MashkaNYC
03-11-2006, 12:18 AM
i dont think i have anything that would hurt me in an interview from my myspace.... :hmmm
MashkaNYC
03-11-2006, 12:18 AM
it would probably help you too if your profile is normal and not filled with crack references and pictures of yourself half naked
lol, no shit... :keke
James Maxx
03-11-2006, 12:22 AM
My myspace is all pics no reference to where I work. All I got from my google was my name on a petition to stop clubbing of seals in the Arctic.

Im a good boy.
MashkaNYC
03-11-2006, 12:52 AM
My myspace is all pics no reference to where I work. All I got from my google was my name on a petition to stop clubbing of seals in the Arctic.

Im a good boy.where are those pics from in the slide show?
Chris
03-11-2006, 01:22 AM
it would probably help you too if your profile is normal and not filled with crack references and pictures of yourself half naked
lol ya....

mangled faces need not apply.

thats insane. just another of the many ways that corporate america steps on your privacy.


then again whats even more nuts are some of these my space nuts. there all fucked up.
brian
03-11-2006, 01:29 AM
it would probably help you too if your profile is normal and not filled with crack references and pictures of yourself half naked

:agree
littled
03-11-2006, 08:54 AM
lol ya....

just another of the many ways that corporate america steps on your privacy.


then again whats even more nuts are some of these my space nuts. there all fucked up.

that's a point someone at the table brought up... the whole "why should they care what you do in your private life"... but the flip side to that comment is how private is someone who posts naked pictures of themselves all over a public web page or who edits their background with all sorts of cannibus pics...

"private" is what you do when you *don't* want the world to know about it... :shuffle
Lushheaven
03-11-2006, 10:14 AM
im not surprised.. but it seems like it can be easy to avoid - i am hoping most people have a professional email on their resume that they don't use for social purposes like myspace.. & leave out your current workplace if you are in the process of looking for a job - that seems like the obvious :shrugger
hightide85
03-11-2006, 11:59 AM
this could be the dumbest thing I've ever read. I'm actually dumber than I was like 30 seconds ago when I opened this thread..
TheHipHopBillGates
03-11-2006, 12:26 PM
what da...anyway that CEO is a herb.
What successful CEO of a company whips out an interviewer's MYSPACE page???
What was his point? Why even TAKE the interview and waste that time if he knew about the profile and was unimpressed by it? :yourcrazy :booted

How many CEO's do you know that are doing interviews(unless it's an exec position)? That should have been a tip off about the company right there.
RICKY
03-11-2006, 12:35 PM
How many CEO's do you know that are doing interviews(unless it's an exec position)? That should have been a tip off about the company right there.


Well if it is a small company then it is definately possible.
Paulette
03-11-2006, 01:32 PM
I took my last name off myspace becasue when you use the search feature to search for someone, if they have their last name in the personal iformation section, it'll come up. So i just left it as paulette because there are tons of paulette's and this way people that I dont want finding me wont find me.

NOt that I have anything bad, its mostly just pics of me and my friends but still.
lizzy
03-11-2006, 03:16 PM
a friend of mine got fired for having a myspace page actually, it wasn't bad but a parent saw it (she teaches 11 y/os) and reported her to the state (this wasn't NY or NJ).