Your online activity may be costing you a job.

tomtontom

melysion wrote: »

It shouldn't be used at all. Its none of your business what a employee does in their leisure time/private life

To some extent, it is. I used to be a client account manager, I spent my days appeasing MDs when our technical team messed up. By coincidence I socialised at the same places as some of these MDs. If they were to bump into me and observe me doing drugs, being offensive etc that would irrevocably break down our relationship, and their relationship with my ex employee. I would have been out of a job and my employer down a multi million pound contract.

silentkiller

melysion wrote: »

Clearly, as you like poking around other peoples facebook pages. Good luck finding any juicy details from mine though.

Would you like me to poke around your private life, as my potential employer?

Whats good for one and all that ...

Are you planning on applying for a job at my company anytime soon? Otherwise it would not be relevant to do so.

And I would not mind one bit if potential employees (or if anyone) would like to look on my facebook as I have nothing to hide

Plus you can't see much anyway.

I don't add them, whatever I see is because they can't be bothered to make it private, by the way. I don't go out of my way to look at their profile.

makeyourdaddyproud

melysion wrote: »

It shouldn't be used at all. Its none of your business what a employee does in their leisure time/private life

100% agree with this. It makes me angry as why an employer would do this. Too many of them are now looking for stupid reasons not to take someone on, not looking at the good qualities and reasons to take someone on.

Most employers in the early stages of hiring are offensive.

mattcanary

makeyourdaddyproud wrote: »

100% agree with this. It makes me angry as why an employer would do this. Too many of them are now looking for stupid reasons not to take someone on, not looking at the good qualities and reasons to take someone on.

Most employers in the early stages of hiring are offensive.

Yes, but someone;s character in their private life is not 100% different from their character in their working life, however much some people may try and state otherwise.
Not when the chips are really down.

Your working life and how you behave there is part of who you are.

Or is deceiving your employers such a good trait?

melysion

silentkiller wrote: »

Are you planning on applying for a job at my company anytime soon? Otherwise it would not be relevant to do so.

And I would not mind one bit if potential employees (or if anyone) would like to look on my facebook as I have nothing to hide

Plus you can't see much anyway.

I don't add them, whatever I see is because they can't be bothered to make it private, by the way. I don't go out of my way to look at their profile.

Ah, but you see, it wouldn't occur to me to do so. Your private life is yours and I would respect it.

However, the fact that you wouldn't show me the same respect tells me all I need to know as to whether I would want to work for you.

makeyourdaddyproud

mattcanary wrote: »

...Or is deceiving your employers such a good trait?

It's no business to an employer what you say or do on your Facebook profile, deception doesn't come into it.


The only thing that matters is that you can get the job done and help bring profit to the company.


As I said earlier, the only reason an employer would do this is to use surreptitious devices not to hire, not looking for qualities that would enhance your application.


I for one would love to see which employer tried to view my profile, and armed with this information, ask them why they did it - whatever the outcome of the interview.

silentkiller

melysion wrote: »

Ah, but you see, it wouldn't occur to me to do so. Your private life is yours and I would respect it.

However, the fact that you wouldn't show me the same respect tells me all I need to know as to whether I would want to work for you.

That's fine by me

jobbingmusician

Just a reminder of the MSE rules before this thread deteriorates....

Please be nice to all posters.

RichardD1970

People can rant and pontificate about how wrong it is for potential employers to use social media in the recruitment process as much as they like, but the fact is some do, and people need to be aware that it can have an impact on your job prospects.

cherryblossomzel

RichardD1970 wrote: »

People can rant and pontificate about how wrong it is for potential employers to use social media in the recruitment process as much as they like, but the fact is some do, and people need to be aware that it can have an impact on your job prospects.

This. Lots of lamenting about the way things SHOULD be. In a perfect world, no-one would come into your home and steal your stuff either. However, burglaries do happen and for that reason most people lock their doors. Same thing with FB, employers WILL look and if you don't want them to see stuff, then either don't post it, or use the privacy settings properly.