Facebook - beyond your weekend photo's

People use facebook to keep in touch with friends and network with other people in their social circles…But what happens whenever you get recruited by a company for a job?
Many companies these days are looking at Facebook to bring in new employees.

The Central Intelligence Agency has been doing this sine 2006. With a log in required and provides a promotional video to help explain the positions requirements. Ernest and young, a financial company, even tries to recruit potential employees through the social networking program. Sounds too good to be true huh? Well it can be whenever companies judge their wanna-be employee by his page.

Companies have begun to rate their employee’s by the content on their Facebook. According to this internet standard website, 20 percent of companies check these people’s profiles before hiring or rejecting them. Another 24 percent of companies hired their employee based on their social profile, and another 33 percent of companies said they were planning on checking their applicant’s profiles before hiring of rejecting them. Solution, clean up your page…

Since the internet has become so popular and diverse, numerous companies have begun to use it to their advantage to rate potential employee’s. This has forced many people to have made it harder for strangers or non-friends to log in to their page and view their information, lock up their profile so only friends can see their information, cleaning up their social networking profile, or even getting rid of their profile all together. Is it necessary? Since when did we have to look over our shoulder on a site intended for us to share information and memories? Even social groups within Westminster have warned their participants to only have good stuff on their profiles and to positively represent themselves and their groups. Essentially, people need to begin to limiting the people they become friends with, or not do what the sites were intended for…Share memories with people during a time where your supposed to make mistakes and push your boundaries…