Just before leaving for Dinah, I ran across an article at CNET called Want a job? Clean up your web act. It revealed that employers and human resources representatives are using personal information found online through Google, blogs, MySpace and other places on the Internet to make hiring decisions. According to the article:
Examples of online information that has been shown to create negative information include MySpace pages that reveal excessive drinking or disrespect for work.
This week, in a Wall Street Journal article titled "How Blogging Can Help You Get a New Job," more evidence of how an online identity can work against you in hiring situations:
Mr. Glass was also put off by instances of foul language and comments about getting drunk. "This was a character problem," he says. "Whether you're writing about people you interviewed with or you're making a public statement that can be construed as immoral, these are the types of things an employer is going to look at and consider in their assessment of you as a candidate."
Just a reminder to those editors and marketing types who have enjoyed reading my Dinah Shore adventures, I am a professional writer and you can contact me through my email address--at right--for all your excessive drinking, burlesque dancing and lowlife-related copy assignments.
Comments (6)
So a potential employer can go on-line and google an applicant to see if they're personally and "morally" fit to work for his company? How rude!
Posted by the cute little redheaded grrlfriend | April 12, 2007 7:49 PM
Posted on April 12, 2007 19:49
Why do you think I went "underground" by stopping the blog and podcast? And you seemed to roll your eyes at the time. Well, I had that scoop a long time before the Wall Street J. did their's! :)
PS: Whore
Posted by Joe G. | April 13, 2007 6:43 AM
Posted on April 13, 2007 06:43
Are you calling me a whore? Because I'll come over there and bitch slap you - and then I'll tell everyone where you live and then after that I'll roll my eyes at you even more.
Posted by the cute little redheaded grrlfriend | April 13, 2007 5:47 PM
Posted on April 13, 2007 17:47
Bah! Just wait 10 years. Once the myspace generation starts being the ones doing the hiring, you'll be sitting pretty.
Posted by Sis | April 14, 2007 2:06 PM
Posted on April 14, 2007 14:06
CLRGF - the "whore" was for T.
Sis - I love you calling these younger folks the "MySpace" Generation. Good one!
Posted by Joe G. | April 17, 2007 10:22 AM
Posted on April 17, 2007 10:22
Joe, I know who you were calling a whore, bitch. God, as if the situation weren't bad enough these comments are really going to sink me. Except I do hold out hope based on the Sister's insightful comment.
Posted by Teresa | April 17, 2007 9:31 PM
Posted on April 17, 2007 21:31