Myspace/Facebook and Interviewing

Depending on where it was done, drinking beer topless on a beach is neither illegal nor destructive. How does it show she would make a better or worse employee than anybody else?
 
People are stupid - all you need to do is make your MySpace page set to "private" so that the public can't see it.
 
Realms09 said:
Depending on where it was done, drinking beer topless on a beach is neither illegal nor destructive. How does it show she would make a better or worse employee than anybody else?
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It's called character and maturity. If you have a choice between two canidates, one of whom you have half-naked beer-drinking pictures of, and one you don't. Which canidate, from your information, appears to be more mature and strikes you as the type of person who's likely to show up to work on time & be reliable & hardworking? Which canidate looks like a partying floozie who's likely to show up with a hangover? Image, my friends. Image.

The image you project to the world is the image others are going to see! If you don't want people to think you're a beer-drinking floozy, then don't have pictures online of you drinking beer half naked! Employers have the right to research their prospective employees, let the information they see be complementary!
 
Ha, well guess that I don't have to worry. My, myspace page is quite boring and has no added shock value (well except that it states I'm single) :D !

I do however get lots of messages from firneds and strangers that my page is boring and needs to be pimped out. Nonetheless when interviewing for a career (if myspace is still around, and hip) it will be turned to private!
 
MQAAord said:
It's called character and maturity. If you have a choice between two canidates, one of whom you have half-naked beer-drinking pictures of, and one you don't. Which canidate, from your information, appears to be more mature and strikes you as the type of person who's likely to show up to work on time & be reliable & hardworking? Which canidate looks like a partying floozie who's likely to show up with a hangover? Image, my friends. Image.

The image you project to the world is the image others are going to see! If you don't want people to think you're a beer-drinking floozy, then don't have pictures online of you drinking beer half naked! Employers have the right to research their prospective employees, let the information they see be complementary!
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I don't know... you can't always judge people by the actions they take in their private life. For all the employer knows, the topless girl is probably a better, smarter person. The other candidate might be a work 9-5 and get the job done kind of person while the drunky is the one working OT and putting in the extra effort.
 
GreenDayPilot said:
I don't know... you can't always judge people by the actions they take in their private life. For all the employer knows, the topless girl is probably a better, smarter person. The other candidate might be a work 9-5 and get the job done kind of person while the drunky is the one working OT and putting in the extra effort.
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That certainly could be the case! However, having half-naked beer drinking pictures on the internet just does not paint a flattering image of a person!

If I was an employer, and I was presented with pictures of a canidate half naked bonging a beer, I would not be impressed. I would have be shown some mighty impressive qualifications to make up for that image. Is that wrong? Maybe, maybe not. But that is how I would feel.
 
I <3 half-naked beer drinking chicks!!!


I have a facebook page, but no myspace. There is nothing compromising on my facebook page. Except for Seggy's picture :D
 
It's called having a life and having fun.

Facebook/myspace is a way of keeping in touch with friends; I talk to a bunch of people on there who I'm sure I would have lost touch with long ago. If someone wants to use that against me, well then their loss! I don't want to work with a bunch of robots anyways!

(not that I have a bunch of wild pics on there either :)
 
Well, if a person creates a myspace page and doesn't classify it as 'private', yes that may be dumb. The thing that really gets me is employers breaking into facebook accounts, which a person needs a university email address for. Yes, employers could easily get someone's logon to borrow, but the site is really *for* college students and no one else. I never post my own pictures on there, but am tagged in other peoples' having "good 'ole fashioned college fun."
 
This never fails to amuse me. A bunch of people at my old school got in trouble for various things because of incriminating myspace content. They all whined that it wasn't fair and that it was stupid for the school to be checking profiles. Just make it private so only people you approve can view your page.
 
As a former hiring manager it is more likely to work against you if you are ugly - than what your pictures show. I had a girl who admitted in an interview to touching a male stripper - she still got the job. Why you ask? Cause she was good for it, and it is not like she is the only one who has done that - just the only one who would admit it - I like honest people.
 
Yea make it private not only that I dont think that topless pic was on myspace or facebook they do not allow nudity. Maybe some other website?
 
I_Money said:
As a former hiring manager it is more likely to work against you if you are ugly - than what your pictures show. I had a girl who admitted in an interview to touching a male stripper - she still got the job. Why you ask? Cause she was good for it, and it is not like she is the only one who has done that - just the only one who would admit it - I like honest people.
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Was she ASKED if she had ever touched a stripper, or was this typical interview conversation for her? ;) And what does "good for it" mean?
 
DAnbert said:
The thing about a right to work state is you can also fire or not hire somebody for no reason at all. All the employer has to do is look them up but don't tell them why they were either fired or not hired.
"We just feel that you are not the right candidate for the job"
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A right to work state is a state in which employees are not forced to join a union.

I think you are referring to an at-will state in which employees without a written contract can be fired for good cause, bad cause or no cause at all. Likewise, they can exercise that same right against the employer at any time.

Neither of these have to do with hiring practices. It is not illegal to check out a candidate's postings on public domains and use that as a basis for making a hiring decision--as long as the decision is not based on a discriminatory reason.
 
It's all about using discretion. Nobody who looks at my myspace or facebook profile can find out anything that will give them any insight into what I do for a living or who my employer is.

And I plan on keeping it that way.

Now, having said that, as someone who's been a hiring manager, would I give a rat's ass about what someone did outside of work? Nope. Wanna show me pictures of him or her stripping on the side? So be it, as long as it doesn't interfere with his or her ability to do the job I'm hiring them for.

I'm all about doing the job and doing it well and going home and doing whatever you want to as long as you're not breaking the law. Want to dress up like little boo peep and have your wife act like a shepherd after you're done with work? Be my guest, just get your work done!
 
Here is a sad fact to consider. The average company in the USA considers employees liabilities, not assets. In the world we live in, when almost anyone can sue anyone else for anything they want and WIN, a company has to take this view.

An extreme example:

A pilot has a myspace account that shows him or her doing "risky" things, skydiving, base jumping, etc. This pilot is then involved in a fatal accident where it APPEARS he/she went below mins. Family members of the pilot find the myspace account and sue the airline for having a "rogue" pilot on staff.

Extreme yes, but if it were to happen the families would probably win all sorts of money.
 
Aeroman said:
which a person needs a university email address for.
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You say that but we were shown high school kids (15-16) with face book accounts. How did that happen??? Also, once out of school (college) how do you keep the .edu account to keep your account open?
 
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