Jobseekers hiding facebook pages

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 :)
 


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
 
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.
 
moltar said:
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.
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^^ This
 
DKPMO said:
^^ This
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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?
 
moltar said:
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 ;)
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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.
 
LotsOfZeros said:
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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^^ 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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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.
 
PamE. said:
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.
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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.
 
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)
 
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.
 
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.
 
Fat Tom said:
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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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.
 
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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