In this article, Alan finder talks about how employer do background checks on their job candidate via Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites. Finder says how many job candidates have been bypassed for job openings because of things posted on their pages, either by themselves or friends. The companies go onto these websites and find their candidates, and some even use their current employee if they go to the same school as the candidate or know the candidate on the website somehow. He also says how many college career counselors inform their students of this and encourage them to be careful of what they put on the pages and what they post. Many do not listen because they feel that their pages are just that private that no one will find it. Ironically, finder says that while many companies use these sites to check on their candidates, and even their current employees, a lot of companies do not. Some do not because they do not wish to see that sides of their employees and candidates and other do not because that it’s all true and that its just fiction, things they post to have a certain image in the eyes of their peers.
I have heard of this before and for this reason I am careful of what I post and what I am tagged in. I have never known a job I have applied for to Facebook or MySpace me but I’m sure it has been done. I do not think that there is anything wrong with companies doing this because the people that work for them represent the company whether they are at work or not. Yet I do believe that what a person has done in their past should not be a reason for not being hired but if they are currently doing things that the company does not approve of, then they should use what they find to determine the fate of the employee or candidate
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