The Impact Social Media has on Your Job Search
Are you using the same e-mail address on your resume as you are with facebook and other social media applications? Are you connected to aquaintances (and not good friends) on facebook? If you said yes anyone of the questions, you might be hurting your chances of getting an interview, or even a job.
As social media continues to grow exponentially, we find that more and more people are willing to share their personal information publicly, while more recruiters and hiring managers are into spying on candidates.
According to Society for Human Resource Management, 75% of recruiters use the internet as part of their screening process and 25% of them have eliminated candidates based on the information that they found online.
So what does this mean to our fellow job seekers?
It’s simple: Be careful of what you post online.
For those of you who did not know, Facebook has this “neat” feature that allows people to search for people by his or her e-mail address. Check to see if you can find your name or e-mail address here (loginto facebook first): http://www.facebook.com/srch.php.
We’re willing to bet that this is one of the first stops recruiters go to when they do their online reconnaissance work.
If you can find yourself in the search results, odds are, hiring managers will be searching for the exact same thing. Cover your tracks and change your facebook settings so outsiders can’t find you. It may help improve your chances of landing a job.
While you’re at it, check what you’re putting on twitter too. Here are some of the tweets I was able to find using their search:
Tweeple 1: It appears I should quit my job or else I may in fact kill someone.
Our Response: Uh…..somebody call 9-1-1
Tweeple 2: Finally quit my job today and it feels fucking great!!!!!
Our Response: Let’s hope that recruiters don’t search for your name since it’s on your profile!!!!!!!!!!
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