Employers to Job Seekers: We Snoop, Deal With It
Reality is reality and there is no way around it. Since the social-networking boom, research into the online lives of potential candidates happens with ever increasing frequency. The trend of researching candidates’ social-networking profiles will become standard practice for nearly every company. I know this is already the case for many companies. Is it wrong? I do not think so. Ultimately, people have to be responsible for their online actions as much as they are responsible for their real-world actions. A while ago, I wrote a couple…