turbolapp

Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages - CNN.com

This article had me thinking in 15 directions at once (reputation management, my kids future, privacy settings...etc)

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IMHopeful

A lot of people will say it's unfair, and your private life is nobody's business. It isn't any different then living in a small town though.

Our big world is getting smaller and smaller.

Javed iqbal

its un fair

Rooby

If I were an employer I'd definitely look up everything I could about somebody and Facebook would be first base. I mean yeah, it feels invasive when you're looking at it in a way like 'personal life vs. corporate judgment', but it's only logical for the employer: you're going to learn a lot more about somebody when they post it freely than when they come in acting for a few minutes of an interview they rehearsed.

Besides, you can make anything on Facebook private, right? So if you're comfortable showing off your lifestyle to everyone in the world EXCEPT prospective employers, you must feel you're doing something questionable.

i meen i guezz but wut do i no rite lols

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turbolapp

I made sure and updated privacy to where when you search for my name it won't link you to the facebook page (unless you're already my "friend")...

Now the kicker is when employers will ask you to friend them so they can check you out (kinda like the whole credit score debate, or drug tests) what are you going to say? no? ok, bye then.

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juntao65

Buy every domain you can afford that has your name in it. Create a flog about how badass of a candidate you are. Then make an interlink network and pwn that shit with SE5.6.

In all seriousness - linkedin fucked me over when I was buying a domain for private sale. I accidentally used my real email when inquiring about it. He realized I had a deeper pocket than I was 'pretending' to have. >.>

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YouDontKnowMe

Privacy will never be the same like the old days again. We just gotta adjust to it.

smaxor

As with most things the system can be gamed

As someone mentioned would be pretty easy to make something that made you look amazing.

Like you're a published author, have a huge following and are all around AMAZING :P

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Are you talking about "celebrity" affiliate bloggers?

Refrozen

Facebook has per-user privacy settings. ;-)

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FortressDewey

Facebook is my social and privacy settings are in place b/c I have pics of my kids. LinkedIn is business.

Turbo brings up a good point what if they asked for permission. The answer would be no, absolutely not.

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Fat Tom

I would be pissed to hell if an employer checked out my personal facebook profile and made judgements about me that prevented me from getting a job, hell even if i got the job i would be pissed. You always here the saying, "keep your work and personal life seperate." Hell in some cases you can get in deep shit for talking about your personal lives at work. But they expect it to be ok to dig into your personal lives. Fucked up in opinion.

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rafealnales

is this all scams????

Bofu2U

That's something that always irked me, is a pending post on bizcaf (sidenote) because it pisses me off that much. Meh.

Wouldn't be the first time that's happened to me.

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wcrmoney

If a prospective employer asks to friend them or whatever on facebook, you obviously set up a fake account and seed it with some family friend stuff. And then you post constant updates about how eager you are for your interview with ZYX company.

PamE.

If they're not smart enough to 'hide' their pictures that I might question as an employer - I don't want them working for me anyways.

Would I be friends with a prospective employer on Facebook? Hell NO.

anaisshaw

I disable my account when I was looking for jobs

davidne

agreed...can't you just make yourself invisible to people searching for you or add them to a list where they can't see your pictures/posts? I really don't see what the point of changing your name is, just update your privacy.

HairyHun

Engage Cloaking field, Mr. Worf.


There are a setting where you can't even friend someone. Basically just the name appears. And if they ask. you say you don't use it anymore.

What kind of dumbass employer will ask so straight anyway.

effinOUTRAGE

lol... All these scared sheeple 'hiding' who they are to go and work for the man.

and a potential employer claiming...
Look at this bullshit collectivist world.

30LOHR

no employer will believe that their interviewee in question will not have a facebook. I think at this point hiding it just makes you look guilty and people looking for jobs should simply make their facebook business-friendly and make any bad pics/info hidden (or just delete it all together

Otinsdale

I read an article about this last year. The writer was an ex human resources person and they recommended having one facebook page set to completely private that had all your normal possibly fucked up daily shit on it and another that you kept public and has you looking like a squeaky clean professional.

not sure if it would help or not though since wouldn't they see you had a private one also? or can you hide yourself in the searc

moltar

most of us being SEOs in here, why not juse write some articles, spin them, submit them all somewhere and dominate top 10 with your name should be relatively low competition I think for most people, unless your name is John Smith.

As for Facebook. Just lock it up, who cares. I don't think employers have any right seeing your Facebook or adding you as friend. If they don't give you job on the basis of not seeing your Facebook account, well let's just say you probably don't want to work in such company anyways. At least I wouldn't.

DKPMO

^^ This

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MikeT3

Same here. When my friend went into the Marines they required him to add his recruiter. Would say it's worth holding onto a dead account if you HAVE to have one for work and just telling them you never use it.

If asked to add a potential employer I'd rather just say no and that it's private. If they want to pass you over for that do you really want to work for that kind of an employer anyway?

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LotsOfZeros

Think about it: It's even better if your name is John Smith

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moltar

If you have shit behind your name, then yes. My suggestion was to write good things about yourself and then SEO them into top 10

LotsOfZeros

All I'm saying is it's very easy to get lost in the shuffle if you have a common name. Take it from me, there are only a handful of families with my last name in the entire U.S. (more of 'us' in Belgium apparently) and my first name is so unique that people always give me that 'say what?' look when they hear it.

I stand out like a sore thumb in the SERPs. I've managed to keep a low profile up to now but I have been giving it serious thought to just start pwning article sites as an author just as a proactive/preemptive reputation management strategy.

It just might come in handy some day.

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DKPMO

^^ This

If you have a rare name it is very hard to hide yourself on Interwebz. You are exposed like fish in the barrel. Beware!

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amateursurgeon

They're not the only ones.

A friend of mine is gay, and Iranian (not a good combination if you want to stay alive). Luckily he lives in the UK now.

Anyhow, some other gay friends of his were going back to Iran to visit family, and they got stopped at immigration, and asked "do you have a facebook account"?

Stupidly, they answered yes, and were told they needed to show the officials their accounts.

Initially they refused, and were told they'd be sent straight to prison. Then they said ok, and stood by, terrified whilst the guard went through their account. Luckily, there was nothing incriminating on there, otherwise they could have been headed straight for the gallows.

aswinglater

Exactly. If someone is doing some crazy shit on the weekends and A) its wild enough that they should really worry about it and B) they arent smart enough to restrict access to that content, they probably aren't bright enough to be a good employee.

hannahmcintyre

Personally, I went with the "have an English paedophile teacher have the same name as you" route.

With all the English news sites as the first results for my name, I don't think I could rank for it if I tried.

(That's a lie, myname.com which I own is still on the first page, despite having been completely blank for over 3 years, but I never aimed for that)

robindeamon

Cool. May FB will get the best of me someday.

Victoria-Rx

Sad but true...

MailProShawn

This is a smart move, unless you are a fine young lady. At my previous career we would actually run a facebook check to see what they looked like. Yes, I am/ was an H.R. nightmare.

In all seriousness this happens.

YouDontKnowMe

Where are the boobs?

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Gonzo

Ok I was applying for jobs and internships this semester, and the solution is really quite simple. I just made my facebook page highly private - like every single setting as private as possible and made it so my profile can't be looked up through search.

Then I made a new facebook account with my alternate school e-mail so that I was added to the university's network. Then I only added professional looking profiles from friends and family. My interests?

"Wow he loves Charity, volunteering, and puppies! yaaa!"

lol, I got my internship.

McBob

Once you put the information up for grabs on the internet (facebook) it's no longer private. If you don't want a (potential) employer to know something, don't put it online.

illmill

luckily I have such a common name that there is no way you could ever look me up on google or facebook. The only way to find me on fb is if we at least have a friend in common, and even then all my stuff is private. I hate facebook, though. I would cancel it if my family wasn't all on the other side of the world to freak out they can't see the pics and updates I post.

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digga121

ahh one more reason I'm glad I got fired, and no longer work for the man.

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goddesspoo

shoot, i'd hide my page too!

nuwav

Whatever you post on the internet, could have bad effect on the company that employs you, each company has an image to up hold, and if someone that works at the company is not showing a good example, it does not look good on the employer you work for.. thats life

Ulixes

I'm a big supporter of 'at-will' employment, so this doesn't bother me. It's not like they are hiring a PI to tail you for weeks to check for unsavoury habits. They are typing your name into Google. If they find anything dodgy, just remember that you put it into the public domain.

Protip for job searchers - follow Gonzo's advice!