It's why you didn't get the job, kiddo:
"Job-hunters aim to fix e-trail troubles" by Joseph P. Kahn | Globe Staff, February 14, 2013
Jenna Dudevoir, global vice president of marketing for Kalypso, a worldwide consulting firm with offices in Boston, posted an opening for a paid internship last year. One applicant’s resume seemed strong. But before scheduling an interview, Dudevoir took a look at his Twitter feed.
“I was appalled,” she recalls. “It was laced with profanities and sexist remarks. I threw his resume in the trash.”
Nearly 80 percent of employers research job applicants on the Internet, and 70 percent have rejected candidates because of their online profile, according to a recent Microsoft survey.
For many job-seeking college seniors, cleaning up their online persona has become a must.
Too late. NSA has all the records.
But that can be a major undertaking, including not just their own posts on a variety of sites but embarrassing tidbits posted about them by friends or acquaintances.
“Many students have been comfortable with the intimate details of their lives on display since birth, so they may not have considered the ramifications of their spring break pictures or other posts that may seem unprofessional,” says Lisa Severy, of the National Career Development Association, whose members include campus career counselors.
That's where the self-centered exhibitionism they have been raised on by the Zionist inculcators and indoctrinators doesn't help.
Todd Van Hoosear, who teaches public relations at Boston University and has long been advising students about using social media wisely, heard about a Boston law firm preparing to hire a young law school grad. But instead of a six-figure job offer, she was confronted with a Facebook picture posted by a friend and discovered during an online search. It had been snapped at a party she’d attended where illegal drugs were present — and visible. The young woman promised to have the photo taken down.
Too late, she was told. No job.
Horror stories like these, according to Severy and others, show that even if students pay attention to their own profiles, removing or hiding content that might come back to haunt them, they may not realize their friends’ postings can damage them, too.
“People often think about their own pages, but not pages they may be tagged to on other people’s profiles,” Severy notes.
Severy and others say the best strategy is building a more professional-looking profile, using a site like LinkedIn, that will surface high in any online search by a potential employer. Hiding less flattering material is not always easy, they note, although there are services that can help — some launched by college students themselves....
Swartz is dead.
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I never answer mine. It's check, check, check, delete -- which is what I'm going to the rest of the night as I go through my Globes.
