But you can’t choose what people search about you before hiring you.
On the other hand, I think the people doing this are aware of the risk they’re taking most of the time. They know people will search their names and see what comes up before hiring them.
You understand that they can find your social media regardless, right?
If you have it and publicly post, it’s not private and they can and should consider your public behavior as part of the process of deciding whether to hire you.
It’s also considered a red flag to have no online presence, so be careful how far down that road you go if you’re trying to work at companies that would be looking you up to begin with.
Your average HR lackey isn’t going to go full 4chan stalker into you. Doubly so if you also have accounts tied to your name that you very occasionally post very, very mundane things on. They’re not going to go looking deeper when they find your Facebook and see you’re just wishing gamgam a happy birthday
So… they google your name, and said that specifically for a marketing role they want to see if you’re good at selling yourself through your social media profile.
Obviously they google my name. My point is they’re not going to go through and try to connect username after username after username to find forum posts from 2009 or some shit.
I don’t exactly see what that has to do with searching for peoples names or anything. Just that they accidentally CC’d him when talking about rejecting him.
They fucked up, didn’t send him the interview time, then didn’t hire him because he didn’t show up to an interview he didn’t know about. It’s fucked, but not exactly relevant to this discussion.
It’s commonly known now though that most employers will look through anything you’ve posted publicly online these days though. Regardless of what you put on your resume there’s nothing stopping them from doing a Google search for your name. In this case where the post has now garnered attention on news sites an employer wouldn’t even have to go into her social media, since this is just up on multiple news sites forever now
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But you can’t choose what people search about you before hiring you.
On the other hand, I think the people doing this are aware of the risk they’re taking most of the time. They know people will search their names and see what comes up before hiring them.
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When did this become about you?
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Please point out where “people” said that. I certainly didn’t:
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You understand that they can find your social media regardless, right?
If you have it and publicly post, it’s not private and they can and should consider your public behavior as part of the process of deciding whether to hire you.
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This is literally a response to the fact that people putting things on social media is going to make it much harder for them to get a desirable job.
That’s the entire purpose of the post you were somehow disagreeing with.
Employers, especially for white collar gigs, often Google the folks they are hiring.
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That’s rarely possible anymore.
I guess me and most of the people I know are rare
Yes. Yes you are.
It’s also considered a red flag to have no online presence, so be careful how far down that road you go if you’re trying to work at companies that would be looking you up to begin with.
Your average HR lackey isn’t going to go full 4chan stalker into you. Doubly so if you also have accounts tied to your name that you very occasionally post very, very mundane things on. They’re not going to go looking deeper when they find your Facebook and see you’re just wishing gamgam a happy birthday
Actual HR people seem to disagree with you-
https://blog.photofeeler.com/what-hr-recruiters-look-for-googling-job-candidates/
So… they google your name, and said that specifically for a marketing role they want to see if you’re good at selling yourself through your social media profile.
Obviously they google my name. My point is they’re not going to go through and try to connect username after username after username to find forum posts from 2009 or some shit.
Just one example-
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/tiktok-job-rejection-hr-email-b2230208.html
I don’t exactly see what that has to do with searching for peoples names or anything. Just that they accidentally CC’d him when talking about rejecting him.
They fucked up, didn’t send him the interview time, then didn’t hire him because he didn’t show up to an interview he didn’t know about. It’s fucked, but not exactly relevant to this discussion.
It’s commonly known now though that most employers will look through anything you’ve posted publicly online these days though. Regardless of what you put on your resume there’s nothing stopping them from doing a Google search for your name. In this case where the post has now garnered attention on news sites an employer wouldn’t even have to go into her social media, since this is just up on multiple news sites forever now
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