Candidate Selection & MySpace Appearances
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by Joe Wynne
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Miss New Jersey can keep her crown. The embarrassing photographs that probably originated from a MySpace account will not ruin her chances of getting into the next Miss America Pageant.
So should you cut job candidates slack if you find photos of inappropriate behavior on MySpace (or a similar site) before you hire them? Probably not. Think about what it says about their judgment if they are looking for a job and leave those photos available. Is this the kind of judgment that you want in your organization to make critical project decisions on the ground? I should think not. Bring the individual into an interview if you want to – just to make sure. Ask this question: “How do the photos on your MySpace account reflect the good employee judgment our organization needs to remain a world-class competitor?”
Posted on: July 16, 2007 09:26 PM |
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This is an interesting phenomenon in our 2.0 world--all of our behavior is public today. There is no more separation of a person''s work like and private life. Similarly, there is not the same separation between what
representatives of a company do in public or in private. Should you cut them some slack? I don''t think most people will because the world is changing. Thomas Friedman wrote about this phenomenon in the New York Times, and I blogged about it on
TalentOnTarget.com. Rudolf Melik, CEO Tenrox
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