Social media and employers ( Archived) (28)

Of course they do.

Another reason not to have Facebook. (I don't).

All who can justify employers to dig up dirt on employees about their viewpoints etc. What about the employees finding dirt on the employers and hiring managers? What's good for the goose should be good for the gander.
Don't assume that every corporate executive is on the level. Or every hiring manager is pristine. I feel potential employees should have equal rights to check on potential employers just like they do on employees.
In a world of do as I say not as I do, is it fair and just to say you had a bad moment with a previous job that it should be held against you accordingly?

What people even say here on this site, imagine what you thought was trivial but, a potential employer read your trivial blog and decided you are not the kind of a**hole they want in their company because you are not aligned with their policies and social political views.

Of course, they may never tell that but, I would not doubt that those who write up stuff here on the political blogs and bad mouthing the President or some other high profile leader or if you sound like a misogynous and the hiring manager is a woman God help the fool. If potential employers found the crap people say, it could come back to haunt them when they need a job and they find they are black balled by all companies.

Now granted a lot has to do with the kind of job you are applying for. If you were applying for an NSA or FBI job or Attorney General then yes you should be investigated a bit before taking on such a high profile job.
Yet, for a job for lousy $9.00 an hr at a warehouse throwing boxes of crap around which requires no fancy education or skill, is a security clearance really all that necessary?
Is a person's credit that important to work on an assembly line? If you were working on a cash register maybe, because you are responsible for other people's money. The temptation to steal is too great knowing the cost of living is too much these days.
Overall, if employers love to scrutinize their potential employees like they are common criminals before proven innocent should we not do the same for elected officials?

Can a potential employee offer a psychological test to the managers they are going to work for as they make them do? It sure would be nice to know your supervisor's background ahead of time to warrant whether you want to work with him or her.
Often times you find out about how your supervisors are after the fact.
Whatever happened to the days that if you are walking breathing your hired!!! Those days are gone I guess.
Now people have to prove they are worthy to work. Much like the same in finding a girlfriend on this site. Imagine how many people would say the Hell with this site if they had to go through a psychological profile test to be worthy to be here?
Once they found out how many nutjobs are here , the population of ideal social mates on this site would dwindle down to about maybe 100 people that may fit the criteria to be dating one another.

Its all about meeting a criteria with jobs and making friends getting credit and being allowed to be human.
If you don't meet the criteria you don't get the job, nor the girl, nor the credit, nothing!!
Now imagine if the God people dance to felt the same way if you don't meet the criteria to live in paradise whatever that may entail, you go elsewhere. You don't get the 72 virgins you don't get to party likes its 1999 which already came and gone. Maybe that is why God sent his own atonement as a token of his mercy for an ungrateful generation and civilization.

I am really glad that Social Media was not so much of a thing when I was in the job market. Imagine having to worry that some future employer is going to see something you posted on a bad day. I do think younger folks need to be more careful about what they post because it's very likely that a potential employer will see it and judge them.

I was told by some people that in some countries people can even be forbidden to have profiles on social media, at least with their real name and photos. Companies simply don't allow them.