Facebook And Employers

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 5 days ago
All that superpoking wastes a lot of time at the office — and could be costing companies billions in lost productivity. Why a growing number of Employers are banning Facebook. ...

Source: au.rd.yahoo.com --- 3 days ago
TORONTO (Reuters) - While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday. ...

Source: www.msnbc.msn.com --- 2 days ago
While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday. ...

Source: www.reuters.com --- 4 days ago
TORONTO (Reuters Life!) - While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday. ...

Source: www.eweek.com --- 3 days ago
Study: More people are censoring embarrassing personal information.... Build IT Knowledge with Current & Trusted Content Helps Employees Develop & Hone New Technical Programming Skills. Sign Up & Get Full Access. ...

Source: www.itwire.com --- 25 days ago
Companies seeking to attract young workers should think twice before limiting access to social networking sites during business hours, a new study says. ...

Source: tnjn.com --- 33 days ago
Employers are now using Facebook as a way to gain more information about their potential employees. Is this an invasion of privacy or a useful way to gain information about a candidate for employment? Ashley Cerasaro investigates this injustice toward college students.   ...

Source: bloggerati.com.au --- 7 days ago
Australian Employers' approach to on-line social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace may be influencing their efforts to recruit young workers 3 Vote(s) ...

Source: www.recruitermarketing.com --- 37 days ago
Welcome. Today I found the following headlines about internet recruiting. Bodtmann catching eyes of recruiters as well - Scranton Times-Tribune Bodtmann catching eyes of recruiters as wellScranton Times-Tribune, USA - Mar 16, 2008You cant help but notice that running back, said Mike Farrell, a national analyst for Rivals.com, an Internet recruiting Web site. … \n Recruiting: Heels add [...] ...

Source: jobsearchtech.about.com --- 9 days ago
It is becoming increasingly common for Employers to check out MySpace, Facebook and personal web sites or blogs to get information about a potential new hire. Like it or not,... ...

Source: www.webpronews.com --- 3 days ago
Here’s a headline from a new Reuters article : "Facebook users willing to let Employers see profiles" Reuters looks at a new report on Canadian Facebook users and pretty much declares that they are now happy to let Employers see their profiles. But look at the data: read more ...

Source: www.sivacracy.net --- 9 days ago
I've complained before about the phenomenon of what I call " Facebook Journalism " in which reporters rely on material from social networking sites rather than actually go to the site of the story and interview the participants. Yet the BBC has done a form of Facebook journalism that actually does a service to its audience, by doing an investigative story about a security flaw in the social networking site that seven million Britons rely upon. In the video for " BBC Exposes Facebook Flaw " they explain that they "managed to write a very simple application which steals a user's personal Facebook details and those of all their friends without their knowledge." Then "the application sends them to us," the reporter explains, so that names, birthdates, addresses, and Employers can be gleaned to locate potential targets of identity theft. This story is a nice combination of investigative journalism and engagement with writing actual computer code that has become all too rare in media coverage of a networked digital era that demands more knowledgeable attention to the possible hidden agendas of black box programs, which users are likely to be able to interrogate on their own. For the full story of their exploit and advice for anxious users, go here . Thanks to Peter Krapp for the link. ...

Source: blogs.jsonline.com --- 2 days ago
The Rundown is a weekday synopsis of news involving politics and government from the pages of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, as well as headlines of note from elsewhere. In light of a Journal Sentinel investigation into possible abuses of sick leave among employees at the state Department of Corrections, Secretary Rick Raemisch is reviewing the agency's sick policies , but has no plans to change it. Congress is considering how to change the nation's immigration laws , and proposals are aimed at requiring Employers to use certain databases to verify a worker's immigration status. The state Department of Justice released more information from the autopsies from last fall's shootings in Crandon, but pathologists' reports were not made available. The Justice Department was also part of an agreement announced Thursday with social networking site Facebook to warn children about predators and inappropriate content. Politics improperly influenced a hiring decision at the state Department of Workforce Development, a state hearing examiner concluded, and the resulting legal settlement cost taxpayers $346,000, the Associated Press reports . Controversial former University of Wisconsin-Madison lecturer Kevin Barrett is running for Congress as a libertarian against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind (D-La Crosse), the La Crosse Tribune reports . ...

Source: blogs.payscale.com --- 16 hours ago
Has your boss ever asked to be "friends" with you on Facebook? As social media becomes more prevalent, it's a dilemma more workers are facing. A Boston Globe story reports that the fastest-growing segment of Facebook is people 25 years or older, and more than half of all users are beyond college. Accepting a boss's Facebook request can be awkward, but rejecting it can be a slight--and potentially detrimental to your career. Should Employers be making such inquiries? If they do--and no doubt some will--what's an employee to do? Employees and Employers, Beware An MSNBC story from last summer notes: According to a March survey by Ponemon Institute, a privacy think tank, 35 percent of hiring managers use Google to do online background checks on job candidates, and 23 percent look people up on social networking sites. About one-third of those Web searches lead to rejections, according to the survey. Evidently, Employers are poking around online--because they can, and technology will likely improve and refine the information they gather in the future. This wealth of information holds important lessons for employees and Employers. Employees must first be aware potential Employers are conducting these searches. The MSNBC story points to an Adecco study that found 66 percent of Generation Y respondents didn't realize their online personas could become part of hiring decisions. Once workers know how Employers are tapping in ...

Source: www.onrec.com --- 32 days ago
69% of Employers have banned social network sites, such as Facebook ...

Source: 69.89.31.94 --- 21 days ago
Despite the initial clamour, and concern, about Employers using social networking sites to aid recruitment, new research has shown that three in four Employers actually avoid using the likes of Facebook when sizing up potential candidates. ...

Source: www.brijit.com --- 4 days ago
Source: Details | Author: Ian Daly | Date: 7 May 2008 Daly argues that the psychological pressure of social-networking sites to join, amass dozens of friends, post ludicrous photos of yourself, and constantly update your profile is an addiction leading to regression into bygone adolescence. And there can be real-world consequences, too, as when prospective Employers are disturbed by what they discover in posted, publicly accessible profiles. Though Daly has some articulate friends -- one reduces social networking to "bad attempts at being quasi-famous" -- his rehashed gripes are unlikely to faze current or future Facebook aficionados. Permalink ...

Source: www.realtime-itcompliance.com --- 4 days ago
I've blogged several times about how Employers are inreasingly using information found on the Internet to make hiring, and firing, decisions, such as here and here . I've also written about it several times, such as here . Here's another example to add to your files for how information posted to social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, can impact your employment situation where a woman graduating with an education degree was denied teaching credentials, and this is not the first time a situation has occurred similar to this... ...

Source: online-social-networking.earn--money--online.com --- 10 days ago
By MARTHA IRVINE CHICAGO (AP) — Sarah Brown is unusually cautious when it comes to social networking. The college sophomore doesn't have a MySpace page and, while she's on Facebook, she does everything she can to keep her page as private as she can. "I don't want to have to worry about all the different online scandals and problems," says Brown, an education major at St. Joseph College in Connecticut. She'd like to control her personal information and keep it out of the hands of identity thieves or snooping future Employers. "It's just common sense." It sounds like her info is locked down and airtight. But is it? Turns out, even the privacy-conscious Sarah Browns of the world freely hand over personal information to perfect strangers. They do so every time they download and install what's known as an "application," one of thousands of mini-programs on a growing number of social networking sites that are designed by third-party developers for anything from games and sports teams to trivia quizzes and virtual gifts. Brown, for instance, has installed applications on her Facebook page for Boston Bruins fans and another that allows her to post "bumper stickers" on her own page and those of her friends. It's a core way to communicate on social networking sites, which allow friends to create pages about themselves and post photos and details about their lives and interests. People often think Facebook profiles and sometimes MySpace ...

Source: onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com --- 3 days ago
Status: Looking for Work on Facebook By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM Published: May 1, 2008 [ snip] With American consumer confidence at a 26-year low and one in seven workers telling the Pew Research Center that they fear they will be laid off, social-networking sites are becoming, for some users, platforms from which to network for job leads, to forge professional contacts or even to announce to friends that you are out of work. Landing a job through a social network not designed for that purpose appears to be a rarity. But savvy users say the sites can be effective tools for promoting one’s job skills and all-around business networking. Even human resource professionals are encouraging people to log on. In a survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers published in March, Employers indicated that whereas in the past they used social-networking sites “to check profiles of potential hires,” said Marilyn Mackes, the group’s executive director, today “more than half will use the sites to network with potential candidates.” CareerBuilder.com , the job search site, officially introduced a Facebook application last month that enables companies to find candidates. It joins other job-oriented Facebook applications, including one by Jobster that has more than 26,000 members . [snip] Steve Biegel, the creative director of Scarlet Heifer, a small Manhattan advertis ...