Online social profiles could hurt your job search
Online social profiles could hurt your job search
Austin Baeth is part of the University of Iowa student government and wants to go to medical school. The U of I junior also lists partying as one of his top interests and jokingly claims on his Facebook.com personal profile to have spent his youth "dodging bullets and managing prostitutes in the ghetto of Des Moines." Baeth's profile is visible on Facebook.com, an online directory used by thousands of college students.
College administrators warn that students' online postings could hurt them as they apply for jobs or graduate schools. "It never occurred to me that search committees could look at Facebook," said Baeth, 21, of Des Moines. The colossal networking tool allows students to meet new people, catch up with old friends and correspond with classmates.
Employers are turning to the Web to learn more about applicants. Recruiters for Pella Corp. may do Google searches on potential hires to see information that might not be on their resumes, said Kathy Krafka Harkema, spokeswoman for the Iowa-based window manufacturer. "Blogs are great things. They are also public information," Krafka Harkema said. "It's very important to consider in this information age: Your private life can be public very easily."
posted by Victor Lloyd Smith @ 1:13 AM
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