With greater competition for fewer jobs in these tough economic times, employers are using new media to weed out candidates with internet speed. According to CareerBuilder.com, nearly half of the employers in the U.S. now do searches on job candidates on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace and Twitter. This is doubled from last year—45 percent in 2009 versus 22 percent in 2008.
Ars Technica reporter Jacqui Cheng says, “it turns out, many candidates are doing a great job of showing their potential bosses poor communication skills, inappropriate pictures, and even how many workplace secrets they can leak.”
According to the survey on CareerBuilder, Facebook was the most popular site for researching job candidates this year, with professional networking site LinkedIn coming in second at 26 percent. MySpace came in third at 21 percent, 11 percent read blogs, and seven percent followed candidates’ updates on Twitter.
More than a third of survey respondents said that they found reasons not to hire the person applying for the job, including content related to drinking or using drugs, making discriminatory comments, lying about their qualifications, or using text language such as GR8 instead of spelling out “great” in an e-mail or job application.
On the positive side, half of those who screened candidates via their social networking profiles said that they got a good feel for the person’s personality and fit within the organization. Other employers said that they found the profiles supported the candidates’ professional qualifications or that they discovered how creative the candidate was. Solid communication skills, evidence of well-roundedness, and other people’s good references (we assume this one came from LinkedIn) helped boost people’s credentials, too.
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