Saturday, March 24, 2012

The Face of the New Job Market

If you are not on Facebook you don't get the job?

"Employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords" by Manuel Valdes and Shannon McFarland  |  Associated Press, March 21, 2012

SEATTLE -- In their efforts to vet applicants, some companies and government agencies are going beyond merely glancing at a person’s social networking profiles and instead asking to log in as the user to have a look around.

Companies that don’t ask for passwords have taken other steps - such as asking applicants to friend human resource managers or to log in to a company computer during an interview. Once employed, some workers have been required to sign nondisparagement agreements that ban them from talking negatively about an employer on social media....

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