Comments on: HR Managers should check out our Facebooks, our Twitters and our Blogs

By: tipster

tipster — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:32:44 +0000

I wonder if they’d go back as far as Usenet archives on Google. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I used my real name on soc.motss

By: Smoke

Smoke — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:48:44 +0000

Yup. I’ve checked Bebo and facebook for all the recent new grads I’ve interviewed. It’s a safe bet that they usually have a presence on Bebo – seems like 99% of the college students are up there. (And most don’t do themselves any favours online either) Anyway – this isn’t realy a HR thing. In my experience (mostly large multinational sector) the final say on hiring decisions is with the hiring manager and not with HR. And afaik there are no laws against using publicly available online stuff in considering a candidate as long as it’s not obviously discriminatory.. The laws are around what information the candidate doesn’t need to declare (age, ethnicity, religion) during the formal process. Stuff thats publicly available is …well fair game. Naturally though the hiring managers will keep schtum about what extra tidbits they do know….

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 May 2008 18:28:24 +0000

Checking facebook, myspace and linkedin is pretty standard.

I also use spock.com, bigulo.com (if it’s for an Irish position) and do a quick google search.

Lucky are the people with generic firstname surname combinations…

By: Grandad

Grandad — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:17:57 +0000

They are welcome to look me up, anytime

By: Roy (irish taxi)

Roy (irish taxi) — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:51:42 +0000

That’s me F**ked then